Maine’s electricity generation prices have actually gone down
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Here’s something I bet you didn’t know: Maine’s electricity generation prices have actually gone down over the last several years.
That’s right. The cost to produce residential electricity has dropped roughly 34 percent in the last 8 years, from 9.9 cents/kilowatt hour in 2008 to 6.5 cents/kilowatt hour in 2016.
But while production costs are dropping, the costs to get electricity to our homes are going up. Costs to move energy along poles and wires went up roughly 13 percent over that same period.
In a nutshell, our high energy costs are about moving it, not making it. ....
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About Lance Dutson:
Lance Dutson has served as an advisor and strategist for a wide array of federal and state elected officials and candidates, most recently serving as Communications Director for the campaign of U.S. Senator Susan Collins. He managed the 2012 U.S. Senate campaign of GOP candidate Charlie Summers, and also worked on the campaign communications team of U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, as well as the Maine Republican Party, in 2010. He has experience in both state and federal government, as one of the first New Media Directors on Capitol Hill for Senator Collins, and as Special Assistant for Communications to the Maine Speaker of the House. http://www.redhillstrategies.com/about-us/
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Comment by Sherwin A. Start on March 8, 2017 at 5:57pm
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THe scars Left on our LANDSCAPE will be there for thousands of years if not FOREVER !!
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IN Addition the residents and the Tourism industry Businesses will CONTINUE to take a HUGH Hit by the HUGH LOSES sustained due to the WIND Generation Industry's affect on their Lives & Livelihoods - Not to Mention DEVASTATION To our Mountains and Scenic Views ( Tourist Attractions)!!
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So what this all adds up to is that the RATE Payer of Maine is looking at a 13% rate increase over the last 9 years with no relief in sight But the MAINE Rate Payers will have to pay for ALL Of the INFRASTRUCTURE upgrades that CMP Makes so that What ever Electricity is Produced can be TRANSPORTED to Mass., Conn., and R.I. !!
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on March 7, 2017 at 9:59am
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I started working at the former UTC facility in Pittsfield in 2004 when Gasoline exceeded $4.10 per gallon. Since then, slowly but surely the fossil fuel prices have dropped. With Fracking, (stage 1 of 4 stages) Natural Gas or Propane or whatever it is, has seen these drops as well..... So yes Robert. Transmission today is being built in anticipation as what is termed "Build Out" by MEPCO reps. Though they go to the PUC and Committee hearings and cry "Maine's Grid Reliability" which seems to indicate Maine may be a the edge of Peril. We are NOT. This Build Out, is to further increase capacity for Southern New England, wasteful ways. They claim to need new lands for more transmission lines, though if they had true engineers, they could reconfigure their current lands to handle at least 8x the capacity for most of their transmission needs.
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Comment by Robert Powers on March 7, 2017 at 9:50am
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Most of that can be credited to less costly natural gas....NOT wind. Look at transmission costs....which have likely risen to cover the power lines built for additional wind power transmission. Anyone have specifics on that?
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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