Exorbitant power bills aren’t just a Maine thing
Michael Stoddard, executive director of Efficiency Maine, noted that homes typically use more power during the holiday season – decorative lights, holiday baking, even having device-laden college kids home contributes to usage. Combining that with longer run times for heating systems could account for some increase.
“But if their bills went up by an amount more than that would explain,” Stoddard said, “then I think the use of resistance electric space heaters for supplemental heat would be the other logical explanation.”
Could that add up to a nearly $800 monthly bill at an unoccupied camp?
Linda Ruterbories doesn’t think so. She reached out to the Maine Sunday Telegram to share the $797.41 bill she got for February usage at her camp in China. She lives out of state and said she has just enough oil and electric heat on to keep pipes from freezing. She convinced CMP to test her meter, but that can’t happen until later this month.
“No one even lives there!” she wrote. “It’s so discouraging.”.......................................................
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Comment by Eskutassis on March 12, 2018 at 9:07am
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Just sat here and read a lot of the comments to this article. The months of Dec and Jan were particularly cold and with limited access to cheap clean plentiful (in other regions) natural gas, we were forced to rely on gas that had risen significantly in price. Anyone ever take economics in HS or college? There is a thing called supply and demand and it works very simply. Even small minded green energy pundits should be able to understand it. When the supply of a resource is in short supply, its cost goes UP and when it is plentiful, the cost goes DOWN.
We are making more and more of our electricity from natural gas because we have closed coal, hydro and nuclear plants. What we make in hydro should be steady, but solar is just a few hours a day in Dec and Jan when the panels aren't covered with snow, and wind . . . let's just say it is just a non-existent fantasy.
There is plenty of cheap reliable energy, centuries of it, within 500 miles of our border in Pennsylvania. And our "friends" in Massachusetts are prohibiting us from getting it. Without a connection to the system, we are forced to try and cobble together a grid that tries to make us feel good about being green and reveals the true cost of "renewable" energy. Reliable and constant gas plants would go a long way to making our electricity cheap and plentiful. For the price of all the wind turbines and miles of connecting lines that are being proposed we could have enough gas to heat our homes and give us all the electricity we need. Forget smart meters, forget solar farms, forget wind turbines and bring in a solid supply of natural gas.
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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
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"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."
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