A Chart Explains How State Energy Policies Are Failing
Here we have the chart from ISO-NE showing production from generators for 12-09-2025
The scale on the left side of the chart shows the actual production in megawatt hours ( 7.5 k = 7500 megawatts)
The scale on the bottom shows the time of day(01=1am, 02=2am, etc.)
As shown, natural gas is the dominant resource, as it usually is. Natural Gas has been the dominant resource since 2001.
Natural gas has been replacing oil since 2001, and oil was hardly used until two events occurred.
1. As natural gas is used to heat homes and produce electricity, it replaced oil as the heating fuel of choice because it cost far less, which is also true for producing electricity. Unfortunately, there is not enough pipeline capacity to achieve both functions at most efficient costs and, at the same time, natural gas for heating supersedes its use for electricity production.
2. States in New England decided to install policies designed to replace oil with natural gas and then, replace natural gas with wind, solar and batteries. This chart obviously shows the failures of these policies, now natural gas plants are operating at peak, but at unaffordable prices, and oil has made a comeback to supplement the lack of natural gas.
One policy known as RGGI was designed to lower the amount of C02 from oil and natural gas plants by capping the amount they are allowed to emit. This cap is lowered annually. This program charges oil and natural gas plants a cost to emit on a per ton of C02 basis and this charge becomes a portion of the production costs and shows up in retail electricity sales. In 2025, this emission charge set record costs to consumers and is a reason for the standard offer increase for January 1,2026. Rising costs, limited natural gas and the need to burn oil are conflating all at once. The policy is collapsing. It didn't work after billions of dollars were taken from ratepayers.
At the same time, states have enacted policies to replace natural gas heating units with electric heat pumps exacerbating the situation by increasing electricity demands from the very plants they are trying to eliminate.
WE ARE IN A PICKLE! THE POLICIES ARE FAILING! COMPLETE REPEAL OF RENEWABLE LAWS IS THE ONLY ANSWER!
No wonder people are reconsidering nuclear power and demanding the expansion of natural gas pipelines.
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Comment by Willem Post 23 minutes ago
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Dan,
You forgot to mention, CO2 is near a 600 million year low.
We need more CO2 in the atmosphere to increase flora, reduce desert areas and increase fauna, and increase crop yields per acre to better feed 8 billion people.
Reducing CO2 is a game of self-serving bureaucrats and politicians, and rich folks seeking quarantined tax shelters to further enrich themselves and bribe politicians and bureaucrats to help the rich folks get richer.
A TOTAL SHAM THAT IS IMPOVERISHING MAINE PEOPLE, AUGMENTED WITH SOMALIS WHO DO NOT BELONG IN MAINE AND SUCK FROM MANY GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS.
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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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