"The East Coast’s signature climate policy is poised to spike electricity prices just as governors are desperate to lower them."
"A carbon-trading program that covers power plants across 10 mostly blue states from Maine to Maryland is undergoing a price shock. The cost for permission to burn fossil fuels hit a record high this week before cooling after market officials sought to address the issue —…
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PERFORMANCE OF IRON-AIR ENERGY STORAGE FACILITY
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/performance-of-iron-air-energy-storage-facility
By Willem Post
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Form Energy’s iron-air battery storage facility would be located at…
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By Jon Fetherston
August 20, 2026
Wright traveled to Lincoln, where he toured the former Lincoln Paper and Tissue mill property that is being redeveloped into a sprawling technology park — including a planned energy storage facility that supporters say could fundamentally change how Maine and the broader New England power grid handle periods of extreme electricity demand.
The visit brought Wright together with…
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Maine PUC deadlines for the Aroostook renewable generation project(s):
Deadline for questions regarding the amended RFP: May 22, 2026
Maine PUC issued Deadlines for updated or new standalone transmission and joint bids: May 29, 2026
Deadline for updated or new standalone generation bids: June 12,…
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Maine Public | By Kevin Miller
Published August 18, 2026 at 5:23 PM EDT
Gov. Janet Mills joined officials from four other New England states in opposing a major acquisition in the electricity industry that the governors suggest could could impact rates and infrastructure improvements.
The proposed merger of Florida-based NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy, which is headquartered in Virginia, would reportedly create the world's largest regulated electric utility.…
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..................Blue states, on average, have much higher rates than Red states. What’s interesting is the gap between Red-state and Blue-state prices has widened over time, suggesting that the energy policies enacted by these states are driving up costs.
For example, in 2011, average all-sector electricity prices in Blue states were about 3.6 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) higher than in Red states, or 44 percent higher. By 2025, Blue state electricity prices were 6.33 cents per kWh…
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By Carlyssa Baker
Published on: August 17, 2026
NORWAY — The Planning Board denied an application Thursday for a solar array on Greenwood Road, ruling that the project did not meet several of the town’s development standards.
The Maine Community Power Cooperative submitted the application for a solar array at 574 Greenwood Road.
The Planning Board…
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The transition from convential generating plants to solar, wind and batteries has many traps set to not only raise electricity costs, but can cause castrophobic grid blackouts.…
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UNCERTAINTIES !
"New England’s electric power grid is undergoing rapid change. Uncertainties related to the pace and scale of reductions in carbon emissions, growth in electricity demand, and increases in renewable resources and battery storage are just some of the variables that pose challenges now and into the future."
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Is ISO-NE saying NESCOE holds all the responsibility and final decision for the $2.2 billion dollar upgrade that ISO-NE solicited bids for?
"NESCOE’s request is aimed at upgrading the transmission system between northern Maine, where land-based wind generation is expected to increase, and the more populous regions of southern New England, where demand for electricity is highest. The ISO completed its…
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With nothing new on the generator horizon to provide the power needs of data centers, ISO-NE is not feeling good about data center loads. Batteries are basically the only resources being offered through ISO-NE's long term generation outlook portal and noting that batteries are not new generation, in fact, batteries are an impediment to existing generation, ISO-NE had to address this rapidly developing situation and provide FERC (Federal Energy…
ContinuePresident Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is suing New York, Connecticut, and Vermont for their policies that offer in-state tuition to illegal aliens, along with financial assistance.
“Congress long ago made clear that States cannot put illegal aliens over our nation’s own citizens,” Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward…
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ISO New England operates the power grid for six states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It manages the region's wholesale electricity market and directs power flow from its headquarters in Holyoke, Massachusetts, aka the Grid…
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4 Months in a row, electricity generating prices have gone up over last year's monthly average as natural gas prices have fallen year over year.
All we hear from our politicians and climate alarmists is how natural gas prices are driving up the cost of electricity. Straight from the horse's mouth, ISO-NE, the data is exposed. The proganda about the evils of natural gas is…
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First, the land-based wind fiasco;
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In January 2009, Massachusetts set a clean energy goal to install 2,000 megawatts of land-based wind power capacity…
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Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
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 - 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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