The $100-Million Solar Scam and Maine Energy Committee Chair’s Shocking Power Trip

The

$100-Million

Solar Scam &

Maine Energy Committee Chair’s Shocking Power Trip

1/16/18, Maine First Media Staff Report,

The Colosseum on the Kennebec is still buzzing following an Energy Committee hearing late last week.

The controversy surrounds, one piece of unconstitutional legislation, a committee chair on a power trip and a GOP Gubernatorial Candidate missing in action.

The bill in question is LD 1686, the $100-Million Solar Scam.

Republican Senator Tom Saviello (R-Wilton) is the sponsor of the bill again this session.

Last year the $100-Million Solar Scam passed through the legislature but was vetoed by Gov. Paul LePage, and his veto was sustained.

If passed this session, the bill would provide free services for solar users, by charging non-solar Mainers a higher energy rate. Estimates last year projected the proposal would increase energy bills for Mainers by nearly $100-Million.

And that’s what can get lost in the excitement of last Thursday’s controversial hearing. Maine First Media will get into what made the meeting so contentious. And we will cover why the bill is unconstitutional. However, it is important not to forget the simple fact; it’s a bad bill.

Legislators should be looking for ways to cut energy costs for Mainers. This bill raises energy costs for consumers, again, by about $100-Million!

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Comment by Eskutassis on January 19, 2018 at 9:05am

Le's do the math . . . . As Long Islander has so often put forth, Electric Energy Production amounts to roughly 9% of the total CO2 output. Renewables (including hydro, biofuels and nuclear) are about 40% of the energy mix and wind and solar are probably less than 10% of that. So by subsidizing wind and solar very heavily and raising rates at the same time, even if we could increase the amount of wind and solar to the point where we could eliminate all fossil fuels from electricity, we might reduce CO2 about 2% overall and that would not meet the criteria for their madness and would create a great instability in our electrical grid. This is especially true with the closing of a number of nuclear plants nationwide and only one on the drawing boards for the future.

Comment by John F. Hussey on January 18, 2018 at 8:34pm

If this passes Gov. will wisely blow it out of the water with another VETO!

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on January 18, 2018 at 8:25pm

Do you see a few, that have been seated on these committees, for years or repeatedly? Do you see where the problem may exist? Mining, Wind, Solar, all with industry testimony and some Pro Environmentalists groups writing the statutes. When free independent expertise is brought forth for input, it is often rejected. 

EGO's

Comment by arthur qwenk on January 18, 2018 at 8:17pm

This is the blatant abuse of power that has gone on for years at the EUT. Some on it are bought out controlled, lobbied shysters who will continue this unless they are legally challenged and confronted, and charged with malfeasance if need be.

This is nothing new though. This was done all the time with wind power legislation.

This must be stopped. This is procedural debauchment

Comment by Dan McKay on January 18, 2018 at 5:33pm

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/01/18/unprecedented-october-storm-...

I think there is a way to cover these storm related costs.

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on January 18, 2018 at 5:01pm

Mercedes Medford Reads like a nightmare one cannot awaken from; troubling in every detail ........ "An energy bill hike of about $100-Million as a kickback to the green-crony corporatism crowd." ....... "Maine First Media finds it troubling not one Senator, elected by Mainers to work on behalf of the people of Maine, was able to attend a hearing about what Leftists claim is an “emergency” bill." ............. (LD 1686 APPEARS TO BE THE BILL FROM HELL: If passed this session, the bill would provide free services for solar users, by charging non-solar Mainers a higher energy rate. Estimates last year projected the proposal would increase energy bills for Mainers by nearly $100-Million.)

Some of the comments are quite interesting. This one excerpted is spot on; have been at hearing w/ISO present and their frustration was apparent: "The engineering scientists at ISO-NE have warned the public utilities for years that the Pollyanna ideas the ignorant politicians are putting forth are impossible. These ideas are NOT based in science and they can NOT provide reliable, sustainable electric energy in New England." ......................... Hoping this "MaineFirst" piece is shared and awakens all to the fact that things are not well in the hallowed halls where our elected officials "officiate" without care about decision impacts on their constituency protecting instead their various special interests.

 

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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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