LePage continues effort to lower energy costs for Maine ratepayers

LePage continues effort to lower energy costs for Maine ratepayers

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Comment by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on January 5, 2014 at 10:34am

This is just more bad news for wind opponents - using the governor as the "village idiot" confirming what all of the D's and Enviro's think/believe about our supposed energy policy -- makes our job more difficult. They do know how to stack the deck.  

Comment by Dan McKay on January 5, 2014 at 7:04am

. ISO-­-NE’s wind integration manager discussed wind integration at a conference in 2011:

 

“Really the interaction we have with wind now is when we have to curtail it because there's not enough transmission access for the facility to get its full power up. Limited transmission capability, lots of wind trying to get to that transmission capability, it doesn't all fit because you overload the transmission so you have to Reduce it. So that's really our interaction with wind in New England right now.”

Comment by Dan McKay on January 5, 2014 at 7:00am

Michaud has a head full of bricks and Cutler makes several points reinforcing the Governor's position. The only worthly renewable energy sources in Maine are Tidal and Biomass ( as in wood-fired boilers). Grid scale wind and solar are too dilute and intermittent to be part of a real-time electric commodity market.

 

 

THIS FROM " ISO-New England 2013 Regional Electricity Outlook"

  "New England policymakers are seeking to increase the amount of renewable energy in the

region, resulting in a clear need for a flexible and responsive companion resource base on

the grid to provide electricity when the wind doesnʼt blow or the sun doesnʼt shine.

The extent to which wind energy will be developed will depend on the region ʼs readiness to

fund large-scale transmission investment to connect remote wind farms to demand

centers. An analysis conducted at the request of the six New England governors found

that the cost to interconnect from 2,000 MW to 12,000 MW of wind power would be

between $1.6 billion to $25 billion in transmission upgrades.

As the regionʼs reliance on natural gas grows, greater private investment in hardware, fuel

arrangements, or other supplier-selected solutions to ensure resource performance and

availability is essential. "

 

 

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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