Resistance that sank Northern Pass has CMP reworking its transmission line blueprint
..................Projects bidding into the clean-energy competition were scored using a 100-point scale, with the price of power accounting for 75 points. The remaining 25 points reflect values such as development status and overall chances of success, Dalton said.
Avangrid/CMP’s initial cost of $950 million translated into an attractive rate for Massachusetts electric customers. Northern Pass, by contrast, was estimated at $1.4 billion, although it has secured most of its permits and promised an earlier inservice date.
Northern Pass started out at $1.2 billion. But the project grew more expensive, as public resistance to towers and overhead wires forced Eversource to put portions of the line underground.
Outside observers such as Bowles and Dalton wonder to what degree Avangrid/CMP learned lessons from the Northern Pass experience.
In New Hampshire, Northern Pass first proposed an 182-mile overhead line from the Quebec border, cutting through the White Mountain National Forest. That was in 2010. After conservation groups blocked a planned right of way in 2013, Northern Pass altered the route and agreed to bury 8 miles along roads. Still facing opposition, Eversource again shifted the route in 2015, and planned to bury an additional 52 miles along roads in the White Mountains.............................
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Comment by Long Islander on November 18, 2018 at 8:16am
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"Jessome points out that all three projects are merchant lines – that is, they’re being developed for clean-energy goals and to make money for Hydro-Quebec and their builders. They aren’t so-called reliability projects; they’re not needed to keep the lights on in New England."
---- Meanwhile, the Maine Power Reliability Program (aka "CMP Upgrade") was characterized as needed for reliability, yet in fact, it was nothing but Gov Baldacci and his henchmen (including the PUC and Public Advocate at the time) getting ratepayers to give Baldacci's wind developer friends a free shipping system for their electricity. A $1.5 billion heist in broad daylight accomplished thanks to the winged monkeys in the media, legislature, regulators and "environmental" groups
See: http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/maine-electricity-rates...
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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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