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Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published July 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM EDT

Electric grid operator ISO-New England is recommending the region select a $2.2 billion transmission line proposed by Central Maine Power to improve power flows in the region.

ISO-NE presented its "preliminary preferred solution" to a planning advisory committee Tuesday. The project is a response to a request for proposals issued by New England states as part of a regional long-term transmission…

Get involved with the CLUP Update by taking the CLUP Pre-Process Survey! Available from July to September 2026.

The survey should take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete and contains questions in the form of multiple choice, ranking, short answer, and other formats.…

PORTLAND (WGME) — "About 1,800 Maine community solar subscribers won't receive the bill credits they expected this month after some solar project sponsors failed to pay a new state-required charge, the CBS13 I-Team has learned."       …

Platner’s Replacement May Not Be Eligible for Nomination

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published July 27, 2026 at 7:12 AM EDT

The Maine Public Utilities Commission is changing the way it procures electricity for Maine's largest electric utilities in an effort to hedge against price spikes in volatile energy markets.

For years, the commission has taken one day late in the year to select an electricity supplier to provide annual "standard offer" fixed price power through a competitive bidding process.

But this…

Democrats tell us all the time that the replacement of fossil fuel electrical generating plants with solar/wind/batteries will stabilize electricity prices and, in the long run, will lower electricity bills.I wish they would tell us how charging natural gas plants for carbon dioxide emissions is a good way to stabilize prices. The program that establishes these charges are designed to increase the penalty by annually lowering the emissions allowed, which, basically lowers…

Euro News indentifies a way to help the wind/solar industry:

"By supporting flexible tariffs that encourage households to run energy-intensive appliances like washing machines when renewable generation is abundant, they help to better align electricity demand with supply.'…

The Battery Bubble

Batteries won't save the grid

July 24, 2026





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Les Otten of Bethel began his work on wood pellet heating after retiring as vice chairman of the Boston Red Sox in 2007.



While the media and many of us are immersed in Maine’s current political contests, we…

Here is Troy Jackson talking to Seth Berry about the Aroostook County Wind And Transmission Project

Rememeber, all wind projects in Maine are privately owned and power from these projects are sold by power purchase agreements to utilities, companies like Google or sold as a merchant plant into the ISO-NE administered wholesale market. These power purchase agreements are contracts…

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published July 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM EDT

The Maine Department of Energy Resources is seeking regulators' approval for a major buildout of energy storage on the state's electric grid.

The department filed a petition with the Maine Public Utilities Commission this week to start competitive bidding to develop up to 360 megawatts of large-scale batteries.

Acting energy commissioner Celina Cunningham said that batteries can store…

ISO-NE reports reveal that the declarations by Maine Government  and certain environmental groups that higher electric prices are a result of higher natural gas prices are not necessarily true. 

Of course, winter natural gas prices go up due to inadequate pipeline capacity and competition from natural gas heatng.…

Between mid-June and mid-July 2026, one confirmed dead whale washed ashore near Boston.  ( Winthrop) 

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Two minute video: The CCP Has Built a Network of Roughly 1,000 Organizations Operating Inside the United States

https://rumble.com/v7cwcvi-the-ccp-has-built-a-network-of-roughly-1000-organizations-operating-inside-.html?mref=1htl22&mrefc=2

What a great way to…

What could possibly go wrong with that?

7/16/26

That satellite, called Eärendil-1 is targeted to fly later this year. And it could be the first of many: Reflect Orbital aims to operate 50,000 or more such mirror-craft in low Earth orbit by 2035, beaming reflected sunlight down to a variety of customers on the…

"The Energy Institute’s Statistical Review of World Energy, with data for 2025, has been released and shows that fossil fuels still provide 86% of the global energy supply."…