January 2025 Blog Posts (109)

Massive solar farm proposal alarms tiny Aroostook town (Hersey)

by Kathleen Phalen Tomaselli January 31, 2025

 

PATTEN, Maine — A solar developer faced community blowback during an informational session this week on a proposed 5,000-acre solar farm in the tiny northern Maine town of Hersey.

“Just tell me now if this is something you want,” said Next Phase Energy Services President Dave Fowler during the meeting with Hersey residents.

They responded that they…

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Added by Long Islander on January 31, 2025 at 8:18pm — 8 Comments

The Green Energy Scam Takes on Norway...Wants Energy Nationalism

Norway’s Government Collapses Over EU Net-Zero Energy Policies Dispute…

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Added by arthur qwenk on January 31, 2025 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

Maine Republican legislators write Trump asking for further action to stop offshore wind

Why not onshore wind as well?

Maine Republican legislators write Trump asking for further action to stop offshore wind

By: AnnMarie Hilton - January 30, 2025

Maine Republican legislators wrote a letter to President Donald Trump thanking him for his…

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Added by Long Islander on January 31, 2025 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

CDU Votes With AfD for Emergency Immigration Legislation – Failed Scholz and Greens Are Outraged

CDU Votes With AfD for Emergency Immigration Legislation – Failed Scholz and Greens Are Outraged

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/cdu-votes-with-afd-for-emergency-immigration-legislation-failed

By Paul Serran  

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Added by Willem Post on January 31, 2025 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

Ukraine ‘an invented state’ – Romanian election frontrunner

Ukraine ‘an invented state’ – Romanian election frontrunner

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/ukraine-an-invented-state-romanian-election-frontrunner.
Calin Georgescu anticipates an “inevitable”…
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Added by Willem Post on January 30, 2025 at 12:00pm — 1 Comment

AI needs electricity that the current grid can't handle. Enter CRE and a fossil fuel friendly federal government

What is Consumer Regulated Electricity? Why do we need it? How do we get it?…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 29, 2025 at 9:31am — 3 Comments

Utility concerns delay Passamaquoddy solar project

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire
Published January 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM EST

From behind the wheel of a pickup truck, Trevor White points out several landmarks in Indian Township, one of two Passamaquoddy reservations in…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 29, 2025 at 9:05am — 1 Comment

When will renewable energy lower our electricity costs in Maine?

Supply Rates reflect a State's Renewable Energy Policies. More Policies, Higher Rates.

Can you guess which New England State is foregoing ridiculous renewable energy policies?…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 28, 2025 at 8:38am — 2 Comments

Offshore Wind Evacuation Plans 2025

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, Speaker of the House Ron Mariano, and Senate President Karen Spilka are working hard to alter Article 97 of the Massachusetts Constitution to take local property rights from citizens to help offshore wind contractors. Article 97 establishes a right to a clean environment, including its natural,…
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Added by Frank Haggerty on January 28, 2025 at 8:16am — No Comments

Russia winning by ‘three touchdowns’ –a lasting peace possible if Ukraine commits to permanent neutrality, demilitarization, nuclear-free, and denazification.

Russia winning by ‘three touchdowns’ –a lasting peace possible if Ukraine commits to permanent neutrality, demilitarization, nuclear-free, and denazification.

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/russia-winning-by-three-touchdowns-a-lasting-peace-possible-if…

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Added by Willem Post on January 27, 2025 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

Musk Bashes Brussels & Multiculturalism in Surprise Address at AfD Campaign Rally

Musk Bashes Brussels & Multiculturalism in Surprise Address at AfD Campaign Rally…

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Added by Willem Post on January 27, 2025 at 11:30am — No Comments

Another Policy Program that Needs to be on the Chopping Block

REC purchases are the method used by Electricity Suppliers (includes the Standard Offer Supplier) to comply with Maine Policy Renewable Standards. The suppliers must buy RECs at an annual growing percentage of supply. For 2025, the percentage must be 61%

The chart below shows the change in the average cost of RECs paid by suppliers correspondingly attached to the supply portion cost of electric bills.

This chart…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 27, 2025 at 8:15am — 3 Comments

If Not for the Fear of Human-caused Global Warming.

" Few utilities would build wind and solar systems if not for the fear of human-caused global warming. But the new executive orders make it clear that the US will no longer pursue efforts to “mitigate” climate change."
 "The orders also call for the EPA to …
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Added by Dan McKay on January 27, 2025 at 7:11am — 2 Comments

The Real Value of Solar Generation.

In order to find out what the real value of solar generation is, it must be set up to compete in an unbiased marketplace.

ISO-NE has recently changed up their rules to have solar (mostly 5 MW or more) offer a day ahead megawatt quantity at a proposed price, like all other resources are required to do.

With a somewhat level playing field (after all solar receives many out-of-market subsidies that allows them to bid $0), the value of solar generation, seen…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 27, 2025 at 6:54am — 1 Comment

The US, Europe, NATO, Ukraine and Russia; a Critical Time is at Hand

The US, Europe, NATO, Ukraine and Russia; a Critical Time is at Hand

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-us-europe-nato-ukraine-and-russia-a-critical-time-is-at-hand

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Below maps provide a visual context for…

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Added by Willem Post on January 26, 2025 at 3:00pm — No Comments

This Transition from Biden to Trump is Already a Huge Historical Marker

This Transition from Biden to Trump is Already a Huge Historical Marker

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/this-transition-from-biden-to-trump-is-already-a-huge-historical

By Jeffrey Tucker

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Added by Willem Post on January 26, 2025 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Public Hearing 2-6-2025

February 6, 2025  Public Hearing EUT Committee…
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Added by Dan McKay on January 26, 2025 at 10:46am — No Comments

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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 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."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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