Comments - CMP wins key certificate from regulators for transmission line - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-28T21:55:27Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A165120&xn_auth=noHi Art Brigades,
Great data.…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-13:4401701:Comment:1652402019-04-13T15:04:44.760ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p>Hi Art Brigades,</p>
<p>Great data.</p>
<p>I have been looking for that a long time</p>
<p>Please provide the URL for HQ sales to NE and Vermont</p>
<p>Hi Art Brigades,</p>
<p>Great data.</p>
<p>I have been looking for that a long time</p>
<p>Please provide the URL for HQ sales to NE and Vermont</p> HQ sold 3,771,578 MWHs to New…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-12:4401701:Comment:1651452019-04-12T14:58:37.848ZArt Brigadeshttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/ArtBrigades
<p><span>HQ sold 3,771,578 MWHs to New England during the 4th quarter 2018, including its sales to Vermont (325,631 MWHs). NECEC would add approx 2.4 million MWH per quarter sold to New England. HQ’s average wholesale price during the quarter was $45.02/MWH versus ISO-NE average of $45.60/MWH. In the NECEC contract with Mass, the floor price is $58.00/MWH.</span></p>
<p><span>HQ sold 3,771,578 MWHs to New England during the 4th quarter 2018, including its sales to Vermont (325,631 MWHs). NECEC would add approx 2.4 million MWH per quarter sold to New England. HQ’s average wholesale price during the quarter was $45.02/MWH versus ISO-NE average of $45.60/MWH. In the NECEC contract with Mass, the floor price is $58.00/MWH.</span></p> Whetstone,
Snuffing out home…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-12:4401701:Comment:1650932019-04-12T02:45:28.383ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p>Whetstone,</p>
<p>Snuffing out home grown, expensive wind and solar plants, that inefficiently produce variable, intermittent electricity, that needs huge direct and indirect subsidies to make their their prices somewhat palatable, and that could never exist on the grid on their own without gas turbines performing the peaking, filling in and balancing (another crutch), would be a good thing for the near zero growth Maine economy.</p>
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<p>Heavily subsidized, expensive junk electricity,…</p>
<p>Whetstone,</p>
<p>Snuffing out home grown, expensive wind and solar plants, that inefficiently produce variable, intermittent electricity, that needs huge direct and indirect subsidies to make their their prices somewhat palatable, and that could never exist on the grid on their own without gas turbines performing the peaking, filling in and balancing (another crutch), would be a good thing for the near zero growth Maine economy.</p>
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<p>Heavily subsidized, expensive junk electricity, is an economy and job killer.</p>
<p>Millionaires are thriving, but Joe and Jane Worker get the shaft in more ways than one.</p> Whetstone,
Self-serving criti…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-11:4401701:Comment:1650922019-04-11T20:41:49.539ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p>Whetstone,</p>
<p>Self-serving critics think we are naive idiots.</p>
<p>Those critics do not know the numbers.</p>
<p>Hydro Quebec sells electricity at 6 c/kWh at the NE border, under 20-y contracts.</p>
<p>Green Mountain Power, a subsidiary of a French company, pays 5.56 c/kWh</p>
<p>No direct and indirect subsidies are required.</p>
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<p>Wind sells at 9 c/kWh, and field-mounted solar sells at 11 c/kWh, but they require direct and indirect subsidies that enable system owners to…</p>
<p>Whetstone,</p>
<p>Self-serving critics think we are naive idiots.</p>
<p>Those critics do not know the numbers.</p>
<p>Hydro Quebec sells electricity at 6 c/kWh at the NE border, under 20-y contracts.</p>
<p>Green Mountain Power, a subsidiary of a French company, pays 5.56 c/kWh</p>
<p>No direct and indirect subsidies are required.</p>
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<p>Wind sells at 9 c/kWh, and field-mounted solar sells at 11 c/kWh, but they require direct and indirect subsidies that enable system owners to reduce their sell prices by at least 55% to 60%, and be “competitive”, aka obscenely expensive.</p>
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<p>High wind and solar energy costs and the direct and indirect subsidies come out of the pockets of hard working Joe and Jane Worker trying to make ends meet in the near zero growth Maine economy.</p>
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<p>The multi millionaires get to laugh all the way to the bank, because they are getting richer and richer by paying RE rabble-rousers, like McKibben, Bernie and AOC, aka, airhead on crack, to demagogue global warming scare tactics, such as telling us the absurdity the world will come to an end in 12 years.</p>
<p>Who are these people?</p>
<p>Are they nuts?</p>
<p>They belong in a nuthouse.</p> "Critics say it would snuff o…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-11:4401701:Comment:1652332019-04-11T19:35:46.043ZWhetstone_Willyhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WhetstoneWilly
<p>"Critics say it would snuff out homegrown green energy projects, like solar and wind power, in Maine."</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.wral.com/maine-utility-regulators-to-deliberate-145-mile-power-line/18319535/" target="_blank">https://www.wral.com/maine-utility-regulators-to-deliberate-145-mil...</a></p>
<p>"Critics say it would snuff out homegrown green energy projects, like solar and wind power, in Maine."</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://www.wral.com/maine-utility-regulators-to-deliberate-145-mile-power-line/18319535/" target="_blank">https://www.wral.com/maine-utility-regulators-to-deliberate-145-mil...</a></p> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ in their pocke…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-11:4401701:Comment:1649892019-04-11T17:08:59.539ZJohn F. Husseyhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/JohnFHussey
<p>$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ in their pockets ??????????????</p>
<p>$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ in their pockets ??????????????</p> The transmission line has a c…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-11:4401701:Comment:1650892019-04-11T16:30:05.658ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p>The transmission line has a capacity of 1200 MW</p>
<p>The electricity transmission would be about 1200 MW x 8766 h/y x 0.50, capacity factor = 5,250,960,000 kWh/y</p>
<p>This electricity from Canada is about 98% hydro.</p>
<p>Will that electricity stay in Maine, or be sent to Massachusetts?</p>
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<p>For comparison,</p>
<p>Vermont grid load is about 6,000,000,000 kWh/y, or 6.0 TWh/y</p>
<p>After 7% T&D losses, arriving at user meters, is about 5,600,000,000 kWh/y</p>
<p>The transmission line has a capacity of 1200 MW</p>
<p>The electricity transmission would be about 1200 MW x 8766 h/y x 0.50, capacity factor = 5,250,960,000 kWh/y</p>
<p>This electricity from Canada is about 98% hydro.</p>
<p>Will that electricity stay in Maine, or be sent to Massachusetts?</p>
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<p>For comparison,</p>
<p>Vermont grid load is about 6,000,000,000 kWh/y, or 6.0 TWh/y</p>
<p>After 7% T&D losses, arriving at user meters, is about 5,600,000,000 kWh/y</p> The PUC decision is near the…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-11:4401701:Comment:1651352019-04-11T16:02:32.392ZEric A. Tuttlehttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/EricATuttle
<p>The PUC decision is near the bottom as I tried to keep a chronological order. </p>
<p>The PUC decision is near the bottom as I tried to keep a chronological order. </p> This by without directly stat…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-11:4401701:Comment:1651332019-04-11T16:01:22.089ZEric A. Tuttlehttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/EricATuttle
<p>This by without directly stating so, opens Maines Western Maine Mountains to MORE wind turbines in the future. Also it completes all but about 31 miles of an established corridor across Maine for Energy Transportation. A highway being the most expensive and last utility.</p>
<p>My video / audio captures of the events / proceedings though many may not be facebook fans such as myself other than it is but another tool can be viewed through this document. …</p>
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<p>This by without directly stating so, opens Maines Western Maine Mountains to MORE wind turbines in the future. Also it completes all but about 31 miles of an established corridor across Maine for Energy Transportation. A highway being the most expensive and last utility.</p>
<p>My video / audio captures of the events / proceedings though many may not be facebook fans such as myself other than it is but another tool can be viewed through this document. </p>
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<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/notes/say-no-to-necec/427524204670588/">https://www.facebook.com/notes/say-no-to-necec/427524204670588/</a> </p>