BDN & PPH - Massachusetts picks $950M Maine project as backup option in power deal

Massachusetts chose a $950 million project headed by Maine utility Central Maine Power to be its backup option for a massive clean energy procurement that appeared headed to New Hampshire before regulators nixed it last week.

The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources said in a news release Friday that the New England Clean Energy Connect will be the alternative if the Northern Pass project in New Hampshire fails to win approval by March 27.

http://bangordailynews.com/2018/02/16/business/massachusetts-picks-...

PPH: CMP’s $1 billion project to deliver renewable power to Massachusetts gets a second chance
The plan calls for building a 145-mile transmission corridor from Quebec, through Maine, to Massachusetts.

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/02/16/cmps-1-billion-project-to-de...

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BONUS:

Mass. Picks Avangrid Project as Northern Pass Backup

News of the selection drew a protesting tweet from Dan Dolan, president of the New England Power Generators Association: “Massachusetts is now all-in on Hydro-Quebec, going from the fatally flawed Northern Pass to a Maine project that still lacks virtually all its key permits. Hydro-Quebec is asking for Massachusetts consumers to guarantee them revenue through an above-market contract for electricity for the next two decades.”

https://www.rtoinsider.com/hydropower-clean-energy-avangrid-norther...

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Comment by Art Brigades on February 16, 2018 at 7:19pm

There were at least a thousand Maine wind turbines bid into the RFP. If Massachusetts insists on getting green power, much better to have this transmission line carrying dispatchable affordable hydro instead of unreliable expensive wind power.  

Comment by Deborah Andrew on February 16, 2018 at 6:57pm

As a resident of MA, I am appalled that my state government would even consider destroying the mountains and beautiful landscape of Maine for any reason whatsoever.

Beyond this, neither industrial wind turbines nor solar arrays are benign or sustainable.  Both cause great harm from the mining to the manufacture, transport, installation, maintenance & repair, decomissioning, and replacement every 20 +/- years.  We need massive conservation and retrofitting along with legislation that truly protects the environment.  Imagine, for instance, cars that were built to last 50 years and ran at 50 mpg?  Steel, used in cars and industrial wind turbines is a huge polluter and emitter of CO2 ... this is never mentioned, among many other important facts.

 

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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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