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LePage wants wind energy goals out of Maine law

Posted May 09, 2013, at 5:53 p.m.

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Comment by Long Islander on May 10, 2013 at 8:00am

These self-described "businessmen" from the wind industry keep shouting businesses require predictability in order to say Maine cannot adjust its wind law - one that they authored.

In fact, real businessmen thrive in an atmosphere of uncertainty.

They want public risk and private profits. They are not businessmen at all. The term is rent-seeking,

Comment by Brad Blake on May 10, 2013 at 12:04am

The Governor is being truthful about electricity rates. There is no reason to give undue favoritism to an electricity source that doesn't work and which, when arbitrary RPS drive wind down our throats at 20 to 30% of our electricity source, will send your electricity bill sky high. Wind power is the most expensive source of electricity on a cost per MW basis. 

Wind is unpredictable, unreliable, cannot be dispatched to match demand, needs constant back up from fossil fuels, and its integration into the grid adds huge new transmission and equipment costs. The result of those 435 MW of installed capacity in Maine? Less than 25% capacity factor, meaning a little more than 100 MW at a cost of more than $1 billion.  That is a farce.

The Governor knows we can do better than that, starting with the recognition that neither Maine nor ISO-NE grid needs new electricity generation. Maine already produced more electricity than it used before the first wind power project went in at Mars Hill 7 years ago. ISO-NE predicts flat growth of electricity consumption for the remainder of this decade. We have no need for adding any more wind turbines in Maine.

 

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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