Comments - FERC justifies continuation of large Ellsworth Hydro power plant.....it's an official proclamation. - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-28T22:57:32Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A155174&xn_auth=noFeckless wind is ruining the …tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-01-10:4401701:Comment:1555962019-01-10T15:02:08.112Zarthur qwenkhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/arthurqwenk
<p>Feckless wind is ruining the required baseload dependent NE ISO grid.</p>
<p>Bring in the gas lines !</p>
<p>Hydro and nuclear will be needed in the future , not ideologically and politically motivated low density feckless renewables trying to replace dense energy reliable and dispatchable generation sources.</p>
<p>Thermodynamics and real science is needed here , not politically motivated ideological motivations of the "green dream" that are ruining the grid and driving up the cost…</p>
<p>Feckless wind is ruining the required baseload dependent NE ISO grid.</p>
<p>Bring in the gas lines !</p>
<p>Hydro and nuclear will be needed in the future , not ideologically and politically motivated low density feckless renewables trying to replace dense energy reliable and dispatchable generation sources.</p>
<p>Thermodynamics and real science is needed here , not politically motivated ideological motivations of the "green dream" that are ruining the grid and driving up the cost for New Englanders.</p>
<p>When will real science be used here, not ideological politics?</p> Hi Frank,
Here is another lo…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-01-05:4401701:Comment:1551902019-01-05T14:47:32.778ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p>Hi Frank,</p>
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<p>Here is another low-cost producer.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/synapse-study-of-new-england-future-gas-consumption-and-pipeline" target="_blank">http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/synapse-study-of-new-england-future-gas-consumption-and-pipeline</a></p>
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<p><strong>Hydro-Quebec Electricity Generation and Purchases: </strong>Google this URL for the 2017 facts. The H-Q electricity supply is an order of magnitude cleaner…</p>
<p>Hi Frank,</p>
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<p>Here is another low-cost producer.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/synapse-study-of-new-england-future-gas-consumption-and-pipeline" target="_blank">http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/synapse-study-of-new-england-future-gas-consumption-and-pipeline</a></p>
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<p><strong>Hydro-Quebec Electricity Generation and Purchases: </strong>Google this URL for the 2017 facts. The H-Q electricity supply is an order of magnitude cleaner than the Vermont supply.<br/><a href="http://www.hydroquebec.com/sustainable-development/energy-environment/power-generation-purchases-exports.html">http://www.hydroquebec.com/sustainable-development/energy-environment/power-generation-purchases-exports.html</a></p>
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<table>
<tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Table 5/H-Q</strong></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right;">2017</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td></td>
<td><p style="text-align: right;">GWh</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>Hydropower generated </p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right;">177091</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>Purchased</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right;">44006</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>- Hydro</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right;">31610</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>- Wind</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right;">9634</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>- Biomass and waste reclamation </p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right;">2021</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p>- Other</p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right;">741</p>
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td><p><strong>Total RE generated and purchased</strong></p>
</td>
<td><p style="text-align: right;"><strong>221097</strong></p>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<p><strong>NOTE: </strong>Gentilly-2 nuclear generating station, plus three thermal generating stations (Tracy, La Citière and Cadillac) were shut down.</p>
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<p><strong>Hydro-Quebec Export Electricity: </strong>H-Q net exports were 34.4 TWh/y in 2017; provided 27% of H-Q net income, or $780 million, i.e., very profitable.</p>
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<p><strong>H-Q export revenue was $1,651 million in 2017, or 1641/34.4 = 4.8 c/kWh</strong>.</p>
<p>See page 24 of Annual Report URL.</p>
<p>This is for a mix of old and new contracts.</p>
<p>Revenue = 1641</p>
<p>Net profit = 780</p>
<p>Cost = 1641 - 780 = 861</p>
<p><strong>Average cost of H-Q generation = 861/34.4 = 2.5 c/kWh</strong></p>
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<p>GMP buys H-Q electricity, at the Vermont border, for 5.549 c/kWh, under a recent contract. GMP buys at 5.549 c/kWh, per GMP spreadsheet titled “GMP Test Year Power Supply Costs filed as VPSB Docket No: Attachment D, Schedule 2, April 14, 2017”.</p>
<p>H-Q is eager to sell more of its surplus electricity to New England and New York.</p>
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<p><strong>That is at least 50% less than ridgeline wind and large-scale field-mounted solar, which are heavily subsidized to make their electricity appear to be less costly than reality.</strong> </p>
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<p>GMP sells to me at 19 c/kWh, per rate schedule. Consumers <strong>pricing</strong> for electricity is highly political. That is implemented by rate setting, taxes, fees, surcharges, etc., mostly on household electric bills, as in Denmark and Germany, etc. The rate setting is influenced by protecting “RE policy objectives”, which include highly subsidized, expensive microgrids, islanding, batteries and net metered solar and heat pumps.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.hydroquebec.com/sustainable-development/energy-environment/export-markets.html">http://www.hydroquebec.com/sustainable-development/energy-environment/export-markets.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://news.hydroquebec.com/en/press-releases/1338/annual-report-2917/">http://news.hydroquebec.com/en/press-releases/1338/annual-report-2917/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/annual-report.pdf">http://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/annual-report.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/green-mountain-power-cost-of-electricity-c-kwh">http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/green-mountain-power-cost-of-electricity-c-kwh</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/increased-canadian-hydro-energy-to-grow-new-england-s-economy">http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/increased-canadian-hydro-energy-to-grow-new-england-s-economy</a></p> AND THE GENERATING COST is..…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-01-04:4401701:Comment:1551772019-01-04T22:44:35.855ZFrank J. Heller, MPAhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/FrankJHellerMPA
<p>AND THE GENERATING COST is............</p>
<p>"<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Accepting applicant ' time•t• of the 30-year coast of 43</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 14pt;">million 1987 dollars for replacement power, 1tatt estimated</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that, in 1987 dollars, the unit cost of replacement power for</span><br></br><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the year 1986 would have been S0.0415 per kilowatt-hour.…</span></p>
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<p>AND THE GENERATING COST is............</p>
<p>"<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Accepting applicant ' time•t• of the 30-year coast of 43</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14pt;">million 1987 dollars for replacement power, 1tatt estimated</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that, in 1987 dollars, the unit cost of replacement power for</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the year 1986 would have been S0.0415 per kilowatt-hour.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1986 the project produced 34,493,700 net kilowatt•hours of</span><br/><span style="font-size: 14pt;">electrical energy at a unit coat of <span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>S0.0101 per kilowatt-hour</strong></span>. "</span></p>