Talk about putting the cart before the horse. This project goes nowhere if ISO-NE determines they utimately should reverse pursuing this project in September 2026, because they decide to adhere to their basic mission statement which favors no particular type of generation over any other, which this project is doing by their own admission
The Maine PUC is attempting to influence the ISO-NE decision by pre-approving a wind project and generator tie-line to Pittsfield that requires the ISO-NE project to happen. Much of this is due to the Commission Chair Philip Bartlett who started the ISO-NE process as Janet Mills appointee to NESCOE, a rather meaningless and small group of activists. Then Senator Troy Jackson, another Democrat, strong-armed into Maine Law this specific generation project, (which is probably unconstitutional), setting deadlines and automatic PUC approval. Then the Democrats effectively pre-approved this project during Legiaslative Session.
What is going on is collusion betweeen a regulatory agency, out of control legislators and a compliant New England electricity operator/manager, with the ratepayers left out of all the decisions previously made and currently being made. We don't even know the route the generator tie-line will take and will not know until after the PUC selects the winner from all the bids.
We will not know the true costs of these projects even after all bids are selected because the most costly items are hidden in state policy and the PUC always neglects disclosing these costs.
When people explain that "the enemy is from within", above are the three enemy combatants we can do without.
A Rotten Deal Being Concocted by Unscrupulous Government People Manipulating a Weak Management Agency
by Dan McKay
on Saturday
Talk about putting the cart before the horse. This project goes nowhere if ISO-NE determines they utimately should reverse pursuing this project in September 2026, because they decide to adhere to their basic mission statement which favors no particular type of generation over any other, which this project is doing by their own admission
The Maine PUC is attempting to influence the ISO-NE decision by pre-approving a wind project and generator tie-line to Pittsfield that requires the ISO-NE project to happen. Much of this is due to the Commission Chair Philip Bartlett who started the ISO-NE process as Janet Mills appointee to NESCOE, a rather meaningless and small group of activists. Then Senator Troy Jackson, another Democrat, strong-armed into Maine Law this specific generation project, (which is probably unconstitutional), setting deadlines and automatic PUC approval. Then the Democrats effectively pre-approved this project during Legiaslative Session.
What is going on is collusion betweeen a regulatory agency, out of control legislators and a compliant New England electricity operator/manager, with the ratepayers left out of all the decisions previously made and currently being made. We don't even know the route the generator tie-line will take and will not know until after the PUC selects the winner from all the bids.
We will not know the true costs of these projects even after all bids are selected because the most costly items are hidden in state policy and the PUC always neglects disclosing these costs.
When people explain that "the enemy is from within", above are the three enemy combatants we can do without.