New Hampshire House backs bill to limit renewable energy incentives

The action would be a major pullback from state law requiring that utilities must obtain a quarter of their energy from renewable sources by 2025................. The higher standards “will cost millions of dollars,” said Rep. Michael Harrington, R-Strafford “and that costs jobs. Every time you raise the cost of electricity you lose jobs.”

But it is not just the money, he added. People could pay more to use renewable but haven’t. Instead, the state was “forcing people to buy a particular type of product,” he said. “Let’s not use the power of the state to force people to buy the power we think is right.”

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Comment by Sherwin Start on February 23, 2018 at 9:17pm

YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT DAN- THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE & ALL OF NEW ENGLAND ARE BENG BAMBOOLZED  By Their Very own LEGISLATURES- When it comes to  Providing ENERGY  at a REASONABLE COST   to its RESIDENTS ! IN THEIR  CHILDLIKE ZEAL- they are  ENCOURAGING the DESTRUCTION Of the Very Environment that all of these RENEWABLES  is suppose to save ! In the Process.

ONE Of the Key organizations that  has a  very big  influence  in AUGUSTA    is  NRCM - Which has been bought and paid for by  THE WIND-POWER  development Industry..

Another one  is the NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY -MAINE CHAPTER. All of these  ORGANIZATIONS  and there are many more  have been BRIBED-  BOUGHT & PAID FOR   BY the  RENEWABLE  Energy  DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRY - and the  RATE payers  Which State they are in  -are the ones  are going to  pay the most..  

Comment by Dan McKay on February 23, 2018 at 11:28am

People throughout New England are realizing energy markets are being manipulated to benefit the few at the expense of all and providing solution to nothing.

How entrenched are special interests in making policy while our ignorant public servants serve the public no good ?

Just yesterday, a Representative on the EUT Committee admitted he didn't have enough knowledge of the Class 1 and Class II Renewable Portfolio Standards( RPS ) to move HIS SPONSORED BILL forward, a bill that referenced the RPS !

So, who did he ask for help, right in the middle of a publically broadcasted committee meeting ?

Dylan Voorhess of the NRCM, Friend of Wind Turbines, Enemy of Ratepayers.

People are getting sick of being pawns to "Out Of Control " Legislators.

Comment by arthur qwenk on February 23, 2018 at 10:49am

Maine should follow suit.

Maine should get out of the  Regional GreenHouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

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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