It's Time to Get Real About Getting Maine Out of the ISO-NE Network

South Portland, a very liberal city, has been counseled to go green even if it means having the power system go down. You can now bet that ISO-NE will keep the power grid operating for everyone in New England but Maine duringt rolling blackouts.
In Maine, South Portland’s council rejects a power plant's ordinance waiver request  to add 40,000 gallons of waterfront oil tank storage to meet the grid operator’s black-start resource standard.
 
The Energy Cape facility at 2 Ocean St. has two 12,000-gallon oil tanks. The company said it needs to add 40,000 more gallons to its capacity to meet Independent System Operator New England’s standards of being a “black-start resource.”

About Blackstart Service From ISO-NE Website:

Blackstart service is necessary to facilitate a stable and orderly restoration of the power system in the event of a partial or complete shutdown of the system. The ISO selects and compensates specific participating generators interconnected to the transmission or distribution system at strategic locations that can be called upon to re-energize the transmission system. These units must meet certain requirements, including having the ability to quickly restart without an outside electrical supply.

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Comment by Frank Haggerty on February 16, 2024 at 10:59am

Massachusetts decided to buy a share of ambitious multibillion-dollar wind and transmission projects in northern Maine after Massachusetts massive green energy failures. Massachusetts had a land-based wind agenda of 2000 megawatts of wind power by 2020. The wind turbines made people sick from noise and shadow flicker. Massachusetts only has around 100 megawatts of land-based wind power. 

Its time to stop the insanity 

 

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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