Wind Transmission: Stopping the Monster Line

by Long Islander

Dec 28, 2014

Wherever in the world wind power is installed to significant degree, new transmission lines must be built, lest the spurting occasional wind-produced electricity will thermally overload the existing lines and severely disrupt the otherwise reliable grid. Yet in Maine, when the $1.4 Billion CMP upgrade (Maine Power Reliability Project) was forced down ratepayers' throats at ratepayer expense, we were told that this project was needed because Maine had "aging transmission lines", despite the fact our lines are always maintained and Maine's population growth is forecast as basically nil over the next 20 years. The fact of the matter is that this was a costly lie perpetrated on Mainers and Maine businesses as a special favor to the wind industry and our PUC completely betrayed us on this one. In fact, their own staff objected to this expenditure but the three PUC commissioners overruled them. 

More reading on how Mainers were betrayed here:

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/maine-electricity-rates-going-up

Germans Balk at Plan for Wind Power Lines

If the lines are not built, supporters said, the stress on the existing power grid will be enormous. 

Dozens of protest groups have sprung up over the past year along the 500-mile path of the project, SuedLink, one of four high-voltage direct current lines that are to carry wind-generated power from north to south.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/world/europe/germans-balk-at-plan-for-wind-power-lines.html

  • Jim Wiegand

    Part of the wind industry's fraud on society is their plans to install many thousands of turbines they have not yet disclosed.  This corruption chips away a piece or project at a time but it is truly silent fraud on the people. This project is a feeder line for many of these future projects.

     

     

    Another fraud of many being put on by this corrupt renewable energy club is their lie that twists these useless hulks into a climate saving necessity. If the Department of Energy were not part of this climate saving fraud, they would step in and put a stop to it.

     

    Dec 28, 2014

  • Martha thacker

    "But citizens living in the areas proposed for the half-mile-wide transmission lines say they worry that the magnetic fields from the lines could harm their health"

    Maybe this is one of the reasons for foot dragging on our 1.4 billion dollar :upgrades". It was stated in First Wind's SEC reports that NY and ME would have their new transmission lines by 2011. So all that turbine power would have some place to go. 

    More current SEC reports from First Wind state the grid congestion is a positive. Don't hold out a lot of hope for ISO, FERC, First Wind  or Augusta to suddenly see the error of their ways. Do see the banks, which are so necessary to constantly prop up a horrific business model, as collapsing under their own weight . And a little gambling problem. he he 

    Dec 29, 2014