PPH - $1 billion CMP transmission project ready to go forward; claims it won't be able to accommodate wind

The proposal to build a $950 million power line through western Maine received a major boost on Monday, when a decision by a regulatory board in New Hampshire mortally wounded the project’s competitor.

Action by the New Hampshire Site Evaluation Committee to delay its final decision on the Northern Pass transmission line likely will make an alternative proposal from Central Maine Power the default winner in a bid to supply vast amounts of hydroelectricity from Quebec to Massachusetts, according to a chief opponent of Northern Pass...................CMP hopes to have state permits by year’s end, according to Carroll, and federal approvals in late 2019. Construction could start in 2019 and take two years, he said........................

the power line is being designed to carry high-voltage direct current (HVDC), not the alternating current needed for wind connections.

This view is further substantiated by a case filing at the Maine PUC last week from NextEra Energy Resources, which is developing wind, solar and storage projects in western Maine. It says an HVDC line makes it “unclear whether NextEra’s development projects will be able to interconnect as proposed…”

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/03/13/1-billion-cmp-transmission-p...

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Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on March 13, 2018 at 4:32pm
If wind power has an Achilles heel it is those huge, expensive battery banks being sold by TESLA and others. It's another reason to go with gas fired local, on demand generation or low head hydro. So now you have the wind farm and a Battery bank for each turbine....gasp. Grid operators are, of course, going to install the batteries for the convenience of the wind farmer, NOT!
Comment by John F. Hussey on March 13, 2018 at 4:10pm

Most new wind turbines produce AC current but it is to "dirty" to use.  Voltage and Hertz are unstable, all over the place.  The "dirty" AC is then run through a converter that puts out stable DC POWER at whatever voltage is required.  The DC power can then be fed into a DC grid or inverted to stable AC power at 60 Hertz and the required voltage and shipped to an AC grid.   CMP is playing games!  

Comment by Steve Thurston on March 13, 2018 at 3:45pm

Once they get approval they will ask to amend to add AC lines to the towers perhaps.

Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on March 13, 2018 at 3:44pm
TOOK a solar seminar the other day, and the impression I got is they want solar output filtered and stored in big battery bank. The big problem is the mismatch between demand and output cycles, in other words you are using a lot of power when generation is weakest, so you either pull it from the grid or a battery bank. It looks like they also are sending power from the batteries to the grid when not needed. In other words power generated goes to batteries then the grid; and if no enough grid power is drawn in.

The other problem emerging is that some states, maybe all? are using 'smart' meters to calculate power used hourly and bill based on high/low demand rates. Which may be why some people are suddenly seeing large bills. The other side is demand side pricing for power brought in from the grid.....obviously you could save if your demand coincides with low prices, and make money if your output is compensated at operant purchase prices. Smart meters can limit your power use as well.
Comment by Robert Powers on March 13, 2018 at 3:41pm
If you believe that one...I'll sell you bridge in Brooklyn that has never been offered for sale before!!!
Once the corridor is permitted, even for DC...a parallel line is too easy, plus smaller spur lines...

 

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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."

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