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The Dots Are Connecting to Destroy Maine from the North to the South

  On January 11, 2023,  LS Power sent a letter to the Maine PUC with the following recommendation concerning the recently terminated Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development Program:
"ISO-NE and NESCOE are currently developing Phase 2 of the Longer-Term Transmission Planning Process, which includes provisions for transmission planning for public policy purposes, including regionalization or participation…
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Added by Dan McKay on January 13, 2024 at 12:27pm — 2 Comments

Senate President Jackson, You Made a Fool of Yourself

Senate President Jackson stood before the EUT committee unable to answer important questions about the Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development Program. He is the sponsor of the bill that elevated this development beyond the normal agency review process that expects proposed projects must prove their viability by financial acquisitions through the private markets to construct the project and recoup their investments by sales of delivered electricity. His bill sidesteps…
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Added by Dan McKay on January 12, 2024 at 11:34am — 1 Comment

Maine Wind and Solar Projects = Advantage, Massachusetts

In 2014, when Maine had 894-megawatt nameplate capacity wind development of the state's current 1013 megawatt nameplate capacity wind development operating, 57% had power purchase agreements with Massachusetts' utilities.

Maine NEB and Tariff Rate solar development sells 64% of their RECs to Massachusetts' utilities.

The charts following discloses the origin of RECs purchased to comply with Maine's Class 1, Class 1A and Class 2 renewable portfolio…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 12, 2024 at 8:29am — No Comments

Solar Generation in Maine is the biggest rip-off in history

Net Energy Billing The facts that escape the Maine legislature
The chart below is the revenue lost by Central Maine Power on NEB in delivery charges. The ratepayers of CMP will compensate CMP for these lost revenues plus administrative costs. That's just half the story. Read on below the chart.
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The images below are from the ISO-NE, ISO Express website;
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Added by Dan McKay on January 10, 2024 at 10:35am — No Comments

Offshore Wind Market Report: 2023 Edition

1 National Renewable Energy Laboratory

2 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wind Energy Technologies Office

Future Trends Summary
 • Fallout from recent cost increases may hinder many U.S. offshore wind energy projects in the near term with…
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Added by Dan McKay on January 8, 2024 at 6:13am — 1 Comment

Maine Electric Generation Emitting C02 at Two and a Half Times the Rate Emitted in 2019

Just as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative peaks the price per ton of C02 ( $14.88 per ton), Maine C02 eclipses the 2019 C02 totals by 1,239,880 tons in 2022. Keep sending that wind and solar energy to Massachusetts and they will keep sending natural gas our way, but Maine might want to get out of the RGGI program first.

Added by Dan McKay on January 5, 2024 at 8:22am — No Comments

EUT Committee Comes Face to Face with the Maine PUC and the Cabal Carries on.

The people of the EUT Committee had a face to face discussion with the PUC and concerns over stranded costs paid by electricity ratepayers came up.  Seems the PUC estimates that future stranded costs  could be somewhere between 1 cent per kilowatt hour to 4 cents per kilowatt hour. In other words, a good portion of the decrease in 2024 electricity supply prices could be eaten up by increases in electric delivery prices driven by legislative policies. i.e. stranded costs associated…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 3, 2024 at 3:02pm — No Comments

NRCM took in more than $8.7 million in 2021.

Staff of Natural Resources Council of Maine Look to Unionize Over Toxic Company Culture

DECEMBER 19, 2023UPDATED:DECEMBER 19,…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 23, 2023 at 7:30am — No Comments

An Act to Fully Engage the Efficiency Maine Trust in Mitigating Climate Change by Creating Electrification Programs

Sponsors
  • Presented By:
    Senator Nicole Grohoski, D - Hancock

A public hearing is scheduled for Wednesday, January 3rd, before the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee on …

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Added by Dan McKay on December 23, 2023 at 7:07am — No Comments

AMP ( Arrears Mangement Program) participants’ electricity usage is significantly higher than the average customer.

CMP would like you to know:    AMP participants’ electricity usage is significantly higher than the average customer

The Maine PUC would like you to Know: "A T&D Utility may recover in rates all costs of its AMP, including incremental costs, reconnection fees and administrative and marketing costs....."

Added by Dan McKay on December 21, 2023 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

The U.S. is expanding CO2 pipelines. One poisoned town wants you to know its story

Julia Simon/NPR

SATARTIA, Miss. – On Feb. 22, 2020, a clear Saturday after weeks of rain, Deemmeris Debra'e Burns, his brother and cousin decided to go fishing. They were headed home in a red Cadillac when they heard a boom and saw a big white cloud shooting into the evening…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 19, 2023 at 6:06am — 3 Comments

A Fact Not Reported by the Fake Media

 "The Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Connecticut has been operating at 40% capacity since October 20th, which has led to increased natural gas consumption for power generation in New England."

Added by Dan McKay on December 19, 2023 at 5:47am — No Comments

Throw Away, Part Time Producing, Expensive Wind Plants= JUNK

1/3 of wind turbines in Spain to be dismantled within five years

7,500 wind turbines in Spain to be dismantled within five years

Approximately 36% of energy-generating wind turbines in Spain will need to be decommissioned within the next five years as they become obsolete, predicts the Wind Energy Association (AEE). This translates to around 7,500 wind turbines and 20,000 blades turning into scrap that will have to be dismantled, transported, and processed, posing a…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 18, 2023 at 6:24am — 1 Comment

“Green” Energy Stocks Are Not Faring Well

“Green” Energy Stocks Are Not Faring Well

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Added by Dan McKay on December 17, 2023 at 8:47am — No Comments

Despathy: Town fights back against wind turbine developer – and wins

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Added by Dan McKay on December 15, 2023 at 1:52pm — 1 Comment

CA. Group Pushing Maine PUC to Give in to a New York Group ( LS Power)

Clearway Energy Group

100 California St, Suite 650

San Francisco, CA 94111

clearwayenergygroup.com

December 12, 2023

The Honorable Philip L. Bartlett II, Chairman

The Honorable Patrick Scully, Commissioner

The Honorable Carolyn Gilbert, Commissioner

Office of the Commissioners

Maine Public Utilities Commission

18 State House Station

Augusta, ME…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 15, 2023 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

Good Bye to Climate Change Hysteria

African Energy Chamber to COP28: We Want Fossil Fuels!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 13, 2023

Ed note: As COP28 wound down, the African Energy Chamber issued this…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 13, 2023 at 5:24am — 4 Comments

55 Kilowatt-hours on your monthly electric bill before you even start using electricity that month

Stranded Costs make up a portion of electric delivery rates and are the costs associated with generating electricity, which in most cases Maine utilities no longer are allowed by law to do. ( Maine PUC 06/13/2023)
 
Stranded costs include the impacts of long-term contracts for renewable power( Generation) as well as the net energy billing (Generation) programs created by the Legislature to…
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Added by Dan McKay on December 9, 2023 at 6:49am — 1 Comment

A Tale of Two Projects

Should Maine propose to pay for the extra half billion dollars( a third of the project cost) it is going to take to build the New England Clean Energy Connect if Maine can receive ownership of an annual 3.15 MWH( megawatt hours) of hydro-electric power at Nearly 100% Capacity Factor? 3.15 MWH is about 30% of Maine's annual electricity consumption making NECEC a great way to supply reliable baseload power. The type of power that keeps the furnace or heat pump…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 9, 2023 at 5:43am — 1 Comment

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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

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(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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