Comments - Lack of New England transmission 'tilts the field towards offshore wind' - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-28T20:15:13Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A81082&xn_auth=noNormal consumers would want t…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2016-07-26:4401701:Comment:810912016-07-26T18:15:24.127ZEric A. Tuttlehttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/EricATuttle
<p>Normal consumers would want to use less, if the cost per unit were lower when conserving as was once tried back around the 80's.</p>
<p>However after that cycle of conservation the rates seemed to have climbed again because the Utilities were selling less power. Eventually the industrial rates doubled rather rapidly as I remember the first jump going from .05/kWh to .08/kWh for the place I was employed as an Electrician. All we seemed to have done was cut our use so that they had it…</p>
<p>Normal consumers would want to use less, if the cost per unit were lower when conserving as was once tried back around the 80's.</p>
<p>However after that cycle of conservation the rates seemed to have climbed again because the Utilities were selling less power. Eventually the industrial rates doubled rather rapidly as I remember the first jump going from .05/kWh to .08/kWh for the place I was employed as an Electrician. All we seemed to have done was cut our use so that they had it available to sell elsewhere with the increased rates... A boon in profits for a while at least. People finally said Why? It's Pointless ! But yet the Politicians, the PUC and utilities essentially colluded and though the corrupted shifted in and out of the arena the Aim of Corporate Utilities is to sell, baby sell.... Grab the land and controls over that land (or under it in some instances) by whatever justifications that can keep the people feeling they are being served.</p>
<p>I agree that the Wind should go out to sea, but there are those wealthy 1%er's to contend with that do not want them in sight either. Much like the (temporary) drilling rigs that were going to go off the coast of Florida for the Massive Natural Gas reserves within the U.S. boundaries of the Bermuda Triangle. Enough to supply this Nation for the next century. The cost of an extension cord to these wind farms at sea, at distances of 5 miles or greater from one of Maine's most outer Islands may be cost prohibitive as another reason to stay inland.</p>
<p>Solar at sea, another great Idea, with much the same restrictions. Not so much visually however a slight sea mist covering the panels could reduce the efficiency by 10% with a heavy water coating even greater. Micro dust particles already reduce efficiency here on land, though we tend to think they are clear of any dusts or particles. "Those Pesky Water spots!"</p>
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<p> </p> Is it the consumers who are d…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2016-07-26:4401701:Comment:809962016-07-26T15:54:59.922ZPenny Grayhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/PennyGray
<p>Is it the consumers who are demanding more renewables, or the politicians and wind developers? Why would consumers want to pay more for an intermittent and unreliable power source that can't be dispatched to the grid? By all means float these things off shore and float all those solar panel farms off shore as well. Right off shore of the big cities where the power is being used. Portland could become known as "The Greenest City in America", with hundreds of massive turbines and their…</p>
<p>Is it the consumers who are demanding more renewables, or the politicians and wind developers? Why would consumers want to pay more for an intermittent and unreliable power source that can't be dispatched to the grid? By all means float these things off shore and float all those solar panel farms off shore as well. Right off shore of the big cities where the power is being used. Portland could become known as "The Greenest City in America", with hundreds of massive turbines and their flashing red lights visible for miles and miles out to sea. Don't know how the fishermen or whales will feel about this but where there's a subsidy, there's a way!</p> To me this is but another exc…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2016-07-25:4401701:Comment:809852016-07-25T18:14:14.451ZEric A. Tuttlehttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/EricATuttle
<p align="justify" style="margin: 30px;">To me this is but another excuse to build yet More Transmission Lines, which are being designed to interconnect with future Wind and Solar power farms. The 5.2 Billion dollar MEPCO line that was recently completed contained a Pittsfield "Dog Leg" turn from what should have been a straight path. It was admitted that the turn was for "Future Buildout". Something that had been in the planning prior to permitting for that construction. Now they plan to hook…</p>
<p align="justify" style="margin: 30px;">To me this is but another excuse to build yet More Transmission Lines, which are being designed to interconnect with future Wind and Solar power farms. The 5.2 Billion dollar MEPCO line that was recently completed contained a Pittsfield "Dog Leg" turn from what should have been a straight path. It was admitted that the turn was for "Future Buildout". Something that had been in the planning prior to permitting for that construction. Now they plan to hook up to that Location with yet another expansion to serve "Wind" from Aroostook county with another MEPCO venture and looming in the background is a CMP plan to hook in at the same point with a futureline heading up into Maine's western Mountains close to the Coburn Gore area.<br/> <br/>
It is strange that these new proposals, combined with the Consolidated Line to Calais, exept for 37 miles approximates the envisioned path of Peter Vigues proposed East West Corridor.<br/>
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First an Energy Corridor under the authority of FERC, should Maine's legislature not accommodate them, then onward to a future Highway and Oil Pipeline to Irving ?<br/>
<br/>He, Mr. Vigue did say "It will be built"!</p>
More land grabs of Maine for the use and needs of non-Mainer's yet again. Are we a plantation for other states ? We are soon to become one if we do not get this madness under control.