When it is known to be an economic disaster, but regulators look away.
This graphic depicts the several wind projects in place or looking for approval to build in Maine. Power Purchase Agreements with out of state utilities have provided collateral for financing.
DEP/BEP approval is essentially a given for these projects.
The Maine PUC is aware of the transmission constraints these projects will encounter in trying to move their output to demand centers. Does Maine Energy Policies exclude the economic impact of relieving transmission constraints have on ratepayers ?
ISO-NE does not recognize new generation sources as additional capacity unless it is incrementally useful, meaning It cannot displace existing capacity. Whenever there is transmission constraints, ramped up intermittent wind output is a displacing source. Does Maine Energy Policies exclude this factor from determining economic impacts from redundant generation sources ?
Is asking for practicalty in Maine Energy Policy too little, too late ?
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Comment by Mike DiCenso on January 1, 2015 at 8:30pm
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Ice fishing on Upper Pond was not pleasant. The wind was blowing toward the Egle's camp. We were half way up the lake and the turbine noise was bouncing and roaring off the ice and trees and made an otherwise nice day most unpleasant. Computer models are useless and inaccurate and are poor excuses by the developer to con regulators into giving them their way. No surprise there to those who know about this industrial ebola .
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on January 1, 2015 at 6:46pm
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what is the benefit?
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Comment by Dan McKay on January 1, 2015 at 3:27pm
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Gov. Paul LePage hasn’t been the proponent for wind energy his Democratic predecessor, John Baldacci, was. He’s long been critical of state laws he sees as favoring wind energy development, and he has blamed wind energy for inflating Maine’s energy prices. In May, he proposed stripping from state law goals for increasing the state’s wind energy capacity over the next two decades.
But if Maine can play a role in satisfying its southern counterparts’ demand for wind energy, LePage is open to selling it to southern New England utilities in exchange for some benefit to Maine’s ratepayers, said Patrick Woodcock, LePage’s energy director. ?????????????????
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Maybe if Woodcock gets on PUC?
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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