PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

Request for Proposals for Renewable

Energy Generation and Transmission

Projects Pursuant to the Northern Maine

Renewable Energy Development…

It's about transparency:

The Maine PUC is not transparent!

The Robbins Mill fire was a real tragedy, but the Maine PUC intentionally negotiated a contract between CMP and the mill for biomass to electricity production that they knew would cost CMP customers millions of dollars. In fact, over the last 7 years CMP customers have paid over $30 million dollars to the mill. Add Renewable Energy Credits and the cost grows by an additional $7 million dollars.

The biomass plant is gone and the badly associated…

This expansion along with the termination of RGGI will substanially lower electric bills. Natural gas will be the dominate fuel for heating and electricity production for many, many years. The renewable energy fad has been exposed for what it is. a bad deal.

 "expanding access to reliable, lower-cost energy supply can help improve affordability, reduce volatility, support system reliability, and strengthen…

ISO-NE August 16,2024 :

"While rates of renewable additions are accelerating, the region will need to add roughly 18 times its current combined capacity of wind, solar, and batteries within the next 25 years to achieve state emissions goals."

Remember how the volatility of fossil fuels required Maine Legislative action to control costs?

Well, the Legislature tasked the Maine PUC with arranging contracts between renewable energy projects and ratepayers of CMP and Versant. These contract arrangements included payments from ratepayers to the selected renewable projects and the payment prices were determined by the PUC involving "long term agreements" of 20 years.

In the case of Robbins Lumber…

"The PUC Commission is examining long-term financial mechanisms and buy-down arrangements that could allow distributed generation project sponsors to voluntarily exit existing NEB arrangements."

It seems the Maine Government has found itself in a pickled mess regarding Net Energy Billing and is asking for a remedy that would entice all these solar projects to exit NEB arrangements. What a joke. These…

Go to the PUC website and you will be greeted with an imbelcilic declaration.

Maine needs new energy regulators who make decisions based on human needs, not biased nonsense.

Welcome to the Maine Public Utilities Commission website

"Our mission is to serve Maine by balancing access to safe and reliable utility services with rates that are just and reasonable for customers and public utilities, while minimizing energy costs…

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…

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…

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…

PJM Dumps Wind and Solar in New Interconnection Queue

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