After all is said and done, the democrat legislators of Maine DO have an energy plan against the people of this state. One part of the plan that is obvious, the house, and senate democrats have always fully intended to penalize electricity consumers in Maine for something not even remotely the customer's fault, the climate. Well, we the people do breathe and exhaust a certain amount…

Have you noticed the "climate change" narrative has quietly become the "climate transition" narrative? It's as if the hundreds of billions of dollars ripped from the pockets of working Americans has gone from wasted money to winning the fight against "climate change". Obviously, this scam is now thoroughly exposed for what it is. It's not the climate. It is redistribution of wealth, enriching the elite, protecting the growth of the administrative state, and the indoctrination of the…

Constellation Energy plans to retire a Massachusetts gas power plant at the end of May, which will eliminate the biggest user of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) that is imported through the company’s Everett Marine Terminal. Constellation is trying to line up new…

The New England electricity market operated with  nuclear plant generation reduced by 1200 megawatts from January 8,2023 to January 19, 2023. Since Tuesday, January 16th when a significant snowfall event occurred all over New England with a simultaneous cold snap, all generators have been called upon at different times of the day. Hydro peaked out during the morning and evening peak demand periods. Solar was non-existence during these peak periods.Natural gas-fired generation soared to 9500…

Chicago-area Tesla charging stations lined with dead cars in freezing cold: 'A bunch of dead robots out here' (foxbusiness.com)

As more solar and wind projects impact electricity generation and natural gas production decreases, oil becomes a must have backups for all other resources.

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In 2014, when Maine had 894-megawatt nameplate capacity wind development of the state's current 1013 megawatt nameplate capacity wind development operating, 57% had power purchase agreements with Massachusetts' utilities.

Maine NEB and Tariff Rate solar development sells 64% of their RECs to Massachusetts' utilities.

The charts following discloses the origin of RECs purchased to comply with Maine's Class 1, Class 1A and Class 2 renewable portfolio…

1 National Renewable Energy Laboratory

2 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wind Energy Technologies Office

Just as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative peaks the price per ton of C02 ( $14.88 per ton), Maine C02 eclipses the 2019 C02 totals by 1,239,880 tons in 2022. Keep sending that wind and solar energy to Massachusetts and they will keep sending natural gas our way, but Maine might want to get out of the RGGI program first.

The people of the EUT Committee had a face to face discussion with the PUC and concerns over stranded costs paid by electricity ratepayers came up.  Seems the PUC estimates that future stranded costs  could be somewhere between 1 cent per kilowatt hour to 4 cents per kilowatt hour. In other words, a good portion of the decrease in 2024 electricity supply prices could be eaten up by increases in electric delivery prices driven by legislative policies. i.e. stranded costs associated…