June 2019 Blog Posts (40)

Beto O'Rourke: Oil Industry Will Be Replaced by Wind Power

NPR Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep asked if O’Rourke supports the oil industry in his state, which provides the state with incredible prosperity, according to the state’s…

12:00AM June 15, 2019

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NORTHEAST SEAPORTS ARE inadequate to meet the needs of the offshore wind industry, and ideas for filling that gap could create tension between the sometimes competing goals of those overseeing the burgeoning sector.

“Developers have studied all the ports up and down the East Coast several times now. What we’re really looking for is large areas, good capacities, no bridges and deep drafts. And if someone has that, please come…

Welcome to the ‘wild west’ of wind law

Can a wind farm owner sue a neighbor for interfering with the breeze?

That question is high on the radar of renewable energy law experts as government officials push for more offshore wind development and as analysts predict that solar, wind and other alternative domestic power sources could overtake coal.

An emerging body of scientific evidence shows that wind farm “wakes” – or the air flow downwind of an active turbine –…

Senator Collins, advocate of the 20 mile wind turbine setback for saltwater, simply looks the other way at the setback of several hundred feet on land.

Susan Collins - Bill Proposes Federal Grant Program For Offshore Wind Jobs Training

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“America’s clean energy future is blowing in the offshore wind,” says Markey. “Offshore wind will create thousands of new jobs in New England, and we need to provide the cutting-edge skills in the jobs of…

Dive Brief:

ISO New England now requires wind- and intermittent hydro resources with a capacity supply obligation to offer into the grid operator’s day-ahead energy market, the grid operator announced Tuesday.

The grid operator called it “another milestone” in its efforts to incorporate renewables into the regional marketplace. The requirement, effective June 1, comes three years after the ISO launched the Do Not Exceed (DNE) dispatch project, enabling those resources to take…

By Josh Keefe, BDN Staff • June 10, 2019 5:26 am

Central Maine Power Co.’s proposal to build a transmission line through western Maine has stirred up controversy on editorial pages, television airwaves, Facebook and the floor of the Maine Legislature.

But the fight is about more than the swath of forest that would need to be cleared to build the line, which would bring hydroelectricity from Quebec to Massachusetts. It’s ultimately…

So please explain it to me again. If trillions have already been spent on wind energy and the U.S  wastes trillions more over the next several decades...............How can wind energy possibly have an impact on carbon emissions and climate?                                                                                                                                                               Here is a recent look at Energy consumption in the US…

Investment? More like pickpocketing ratepayers and taxpayers. Amazing what con artists can get away with with shilling sock puppet media never giving the public the actual facts.

After pause, Maine may have missed the boat on offshore wind

The East Coast is poised for billions of dollars in investment from companies building wind farms in the ocean from Virginia to Massachusetts. Despite a bill in the Maine Legislature to get an experimental…

Glacier National Park quietly removed a visitor center sign saying its iconic glaciers will disappear by 2020 due to climate change.

• Several winters of heavy snowfall threw off climate model projections the glaciers would all disappear by 2020, according to federal officials.
• A blogger first noticed the signage change and noted other signs warning of “impending glacier disappearance have been replaced.”

The…

HARTFORD – With the Senate’s approval Tuesday, wind turbines will be placed off the Connecticut shoreline, which supporters say will help the state meet its clean energy goals while providing job and economic development opportunities.

The bipartisan proposal cleared the Senate unanimously and the House last month on a 134-10 vote, and now moves to Gov. Ned Lamont’s desk.

If the governor signs the bill into law, 14 days later the commissioner of the Department of Energy and…

The Institute for Energy Research and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy released a new study evaluating the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) from new and existing generation resources.



This innovative study takes into account several important considerations that other…

This article (and perhaps the Governor's package???) does not specify the dollars that would be allocated to "clean" energy. Nor does it provide any details.

Mills calls for Maine to borrow $239 million - use of funds includes clean energy

AUGUSTA — Gov. Janet Mills rolled out a $239 million bond package Tuesday that would, among other things, invest in broadband internet and renewable energy, replace aging roads and bridges and rebuild the Land for…

NEW BEDFORD – The next time Massachusetts goes out to bid for renewable energy, offshore wind could have some serious competition.

The state Department of Energy Resources recommended Friday that Massachusetts buy another 1,600 megawatts of renewable power but open the bidding to all sources of clean, renewable energy, not just offshore wind.

Patrick Woodcock, undersecretary of energy, said the offshore wind market has matured enough to compete with other industries. At the…

This Crony Capital  Green $$ Grab  aimed at  basic Mainer's constitutional rights of local control  will continue until Mainers kill PL-661.

With Socialist powers in control in Augusta, and Mills  the governor, there is little hope w/o a major citizen initiative.

Brainwashing Green  ideology is ruining Maine.

Only strong local ordinance protection and protective  changes to combat the wind shysters holds  out hope to defeat future projects…

Long-term contracts raise risks

Bruce Mohl May 31, 2019

THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION is pushing ahead with plans to double the procurement of offshore wind power over the next several years, a move that will increase wind’s share of the state’s energy portfolio to 30 percent while locking Massachusetts into long-term contracts for nearly two thirds of its…

THE BAKER ADMINISTRATION is pushing ahead with plans to double the procurement of offshore wind power over the next several years

On Tuesday, Rhode Island regulators approved a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with DWW REV I, LLC — a joint venture between Ørsted US Offshore Wind and Eversource — for the power generated from the 400 megawatt (MW) Revolution Wind offshore wind project.

The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved the long-term PPA contract between Danish offshore wind giant Ørsted and US-based energy company…