Dan McKay's Blog – May 2026 Archive (4)

Heat Pump Rebates Total Over $500 Million Dollars. Where are the Reduced Electric Rates, Director Stoddard?

Director Stoddard of Efficiency Maine Trust, said during a legislative session that the kilowatt hours goobled up by ratepayer subsidized heat pumps would be paid by reduced delivery costs to everyone in Maine. He must know something that my bill doesn't reveal as it keeps going up and up due to increasing rates. 

I guess the director should have a the title of Flim-Flam Man number 2.

Efficiency Maine Trust has rebated more than…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 4, 2026 at 6:03am — No Comments

How Will the Flim-Flam Man of the PUC Try to Pull the Wool Over the Eyes of the Maine People After Aroostook County Wind Project Bids Become Available?

The Flim-Flam man, AKA Philip Bartlett, PUC Commissioner will present the Maine people with some numbers from the 1200 megawatt wind project bid that he will say saves us money on our electric bills. 

He will not tell you about all the other numbers that come with this wind project. He will focus on the bid amount per megawatt hour against the ISO-NE wholesale market price. That number may be less than wholesale which will result in a savings per the "Energy…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 3, 2026 at 11:05am — No Comments

A Rotten Deal Being Concocted by Unscrupulous Government People Manipulating a Weak Management Agency

Talk about putting the cart before the horse. This project goes nowhere if ISO-NE determines they  utimately should reverse pursuing this project in September 2026,  because they decide to adhere to their basic mission statement which favors no particular type of generation over any other, which this project is doing by their own admission

The Maine PUC is attempting to influence the ISO-NE decision by pre-approving a wind project and generator tie-line to Pittsfield…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 2, 2026 at 10:06am — No Comments

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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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