Socialized Cost Of Transmission In ISO-NE

Remember the Maine Power Reliability Project ?

CMP managed to get ISO-NE to agree it was for regional benefits, consequently, Maine's proportional cost was 8% of the total socialized cost.

Now comes Offshore Wind with Offshore Transmission.

"NEW ENGLAND is in the midst of an energy sea change.  Brought about by the people of the region acting through their elected officials, states in the region have passed legislation directing the procurement of large sources of renewable energy, including up to 3,200 megawatts of offshore wind in Massachusetts. "

Will Massachusetts get ISO-NE to agree to socialize the transmission costs ?

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Comment by Barbara Durkin on January 16, 2019 at 5:59pm

Sorry about typos, spellcheck.  Second sentence intends to convey the US has it backwards.  We plan transmission after offshore wind projects.  Europe learned an expensive lesson.  Build transmissions first.  (Acknowledging Wind is a scam, don’t build transmission to deploy a scam, before or after the scam). 

Comment by Barbara Durkin on January 16, 2019 at 5:52pm

An article linked below, Anbaric Pushes Offshore Grid Plans, quotes an owner of Anbaric on the day sue of the US having it backwards. Europe instals transmission before wind arrays because they’ve learned from a very expensive  and costly mistake that the US is about to repeat!  

Anbaric has billions in transmission work at stake and they continue to write the regulations that apply to them.  They’re connected to Audrey Ziedman, NY former top energy regulator appointed by Cuomo, 

“through a series of overlapping corporate boards and financial backers...”

Anbaric is founded by Audrey’s “former business partner at Viridity, Edward Krapels.”

Audrey Zibelman is presently the CEO of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) appointed March 2017.  

Malcolm Turnbull appointed Audrey to run Australia’s energy market.

8/23/18

“Anbaric Development: Anbaric, a power-line developer, has been trying to benefit from a series of new, state-overseen energy procurements — particularly for offshore wind. The Wakefield firm argues it makes more sense to have separate bids for transmission and for generation, to open up the power line work for these offshore wind farms to competition. Doing so also increases the likelihood that rival wind farm projects can end up sharing the same line to shore. The new energy law gives state officials the authority to separate the bidding, but doesn’t mandate it. “We can compete now,” said Anbaric CEO Ed Krapels, “which is what we were hoping for.” Year-to-date spending: $165,000. Lobbying firms: ML Strategies, Northwind Strategies.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/08/2...

‘Australia’s national energy market is run by a lawyer and climate change activist’

Jo Nova Blog

Jo Nova

13 May 2018

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No wonder our national electricity grid is in deep. Audrey Zibelman is the CEO of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). The former lNew York based woman is a lawyer with an MBA who thinks we can change the weather with our power supply. She was appointed in March 2017. Thank Malcolm Turnbull. Apparently in 2016 she was a favourite for the future Team Hillary in the US.

Audrey the activist

Just to make her motivation clear. Her words last year:

“I believe we’re the last generation on earth who can really do something about climate change.“

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https://www.google.com/amp/s/stopthesethings.com/2018/05/29/the-big...

‘Anbaric Pushes Offshore Grid Plans’

July 22, 2018

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In May, New Jersey set a goal of 3,500 MW of offshore wind by 2030, while Massachusetts awarded a contract for 800 MW and Rhode Island agreed to procure 400 MW. In June, Connecticut signed on for 200 MW, while New York regulators this month authorized state agencies to procure 800 MW by next year, the first phase of a plan to develop 2,400 MW by 2030. (See NYPSC: Offshore Wind ‘Ready for Prime Time’.)

Conant and his colleague Kevin T. Knobloch spoke to RTO Insider about Anbaric’s efforts to develop open access offshore transmission grids to facilitate offshore growth, particularly off the coasts of Massachusetts and New York.

Integrated Planning

In contrast to the U.S. approach, the European energy sector first builds out the transmission system and then has generators compete to an offshore interconnection point, Conant said.

“For example, in Germany, rather than have independent generators lead, they have 14 export cables with 34 different generators connecting to them,” Conant said. “That optimizes the export cables so you get the maximum amount of capacity and you optimize the terrestrial interconnection points.”

FERC in February granted Anbaric the right “to charge negotiated rates for transmission rights on a proposed integrated offshore transmission system that includes two HVDC transmission lines connecting Massachusetts offshore wind generation to the ISO-NE transmission system” (ER18-435).

The company’s Massachusetts Ocean Grid project would have two 1,000-MW HVDC transmission lines capable of delivering power from off the coast of Massachusetts to ISO-NE’s Southeast Massachusetts load zone.

Two 1,000-MW offshore platforms with AC switching stations would be linked by a subsea AC cable, and the electric energy would be converted to DC and transferred by two subsea HVDC cables to onshore convertor stations at two separate 345-kV substations.

Legislative Remedy

The Massachusetts offshore wind solicitation (83C) called for an expandable — and nondiscriminatory — transmission system, which means it would be open to all comers and not limited to one developer or generator.

However, nothing in the legislation authorizing the solicitation obligated it to be open to entities other than the generation developers that own the offshore leases.

“We’re in the process right now of some legislative activity to try to make changes in Massachusetts that would allow transmission to be separate from the generation and allow independent transmission companies to participate in that process,” Conant said.

As Massachusetts lawmakers consider a bill (H.4756) to increase the state’s renewable energy and reduce high-cost peak hours, Anbaric is lobbying to include an amendment that would allow independent transmission developers to participate in the next offshore wind solicitation.

“We thought things could be done better, and some of that comes from our looking at what’s been done in Europe, where they really develop the transmission separate from generation, which is really how they do the onshore grid here in the U.S.,” Conant said.

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https://www.rtoinsider.com/anbaric-offshore-wind-96507/

It helps to have “connections”.  See Cuomo’s office, here: Going back to 2015.  

‘Top energy regulator tied to bidders for state work’

By SCOTT WALDMAN 06/16/2015 05:21 AM EDT

“ALBANY—As New York’s top energy regulator, Audrey Zibelman is in a position to influence a market worth billions of dollars and help set the policy that governs it.” Cut more/

She recently recused herself, after a question from a newspaper reporter, from a decision that could benefit a separate energy company she’s connected to through a series of overlapping corporate boards and financial backers. The company, Anbaric, has billions of dollars in potential transmission and microgrid projects pending before the state and was founded by her former business partner at Viridity, Edward Krapels.

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https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2015/06/top-e...

 

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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