Dan McKay's Blog – January 2018 Archive (10)

Senator A. King's Victory Dance

We know now that Senator A. King is aware of the detrimental natural gas situation in New England. The question is does he consider it a victory derived from his policy input during his State Governing days in addition to his private profiteering days of wind development in Maine ?



" Maine Senator Angus King discussed with van Welie( ISO-NE CEO ) the impact of constraints on the natural gas pipelines coming into New England. And van Welie noted the issues surrounding the…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 31, 2018 at 10:29am — 2 Comments

An Out Of Sync Market ?

Added by Dan McKay on January 20, 2018 at 7:08pm — No Comments

MAINTAINING RELIABILITY IS LIKELY TO BECOME MORE CHALLENGING,

January 17, 2018

"ISO New England today released its Operational Fuel-Security Analysis, a study assessing whether possible future resource combinations would have enough fuel to ensure bulk power system reliability throughout an entire winter. THE RESULTS INDICATE THAT MAINTAINING RELIABILITY IS LIKELY TO BECOME MORE CHALLENGING, ESPECIALLY IF CURRENT POWER SYSTEM TRENDS CONTINUE.""

Most likely an Emergency, but Maine lawmakers feel a dribble of subsidized solar energy and…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 20, 2018 at 9:00am — 3 Comments

The Power To The Few and The Pain To All

The politics that created The Wind Act continues to live on in the EUT Committee

http://www.mainefirstmedia.com/maine-energy-committee-chairs-shocking-power-trip/

Added by Dan McKay on January 17, 2018 at 12:44pm — 4 Comments

An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding Distributed Energy Generation and To Eliminate Gross Metering (EMERGENCY)

An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding Distributed Energy Generation and To Eliminate Gross Metering
(EMERGENCY)

Thursday, January 11, 2018 1:00 PM,Cross Building, Room 211

This bill opens the 2018 version of the Augusta Feed-In Trough .

Added by Dan McKay on January 11, 2018 at 9:19am — No Comments

Regulators Stall UMaine Offshore Wind Project

If you are a ratepayer who thinks you shouldn't have to pay for a University Research Project with a jacked-up electricity bill, your public  comments can be made part of this PUC case:
https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/Comments/CaseNumberSearch.aspx

case number 2010-00235

Added by Dan McKay on January 10, 2018 at 11:32am — 1 Comment

Long term Contracts With Intermittent Resources like Wind and Solar Disruptive To The Market and Costing Ratepayers Millions.



From The ISO-NE Newswire January 8, 2018 :

"Over the past decade, the New England states have sought to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet climate goals through various mechanisms outside of the ISOadministered competitive wholesale markets. These mechanisms include mandates that state-regulated utilities enter into long-term contracts with renewable resource developers.4 These out-of-market actions could have adverse consequences for FCM. Specifically, resources that…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 9, 2018 at 9:12am — 1 Comment

What's the point of the Renewable Portfolio Standard ?

.This bill comes up every session and has been carried over by the house and senate from last session



LD 532, HP 376,

128th Legislature

An Act To Remove the 100-megawatt Limit on Hydroelectric Generators under the Renewable Resources Laws

http://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?ld=532&PID=1456&snum=128

This is ISO-NE…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 6, 2018 at 10:55am — No Comments

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Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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