Dan McKay's Blog – August 2023 Archive (25)
"EV Fail: Car Dealers Turning Away From Electric Vehicles After Learning Harsh Economics Lesson"
“The only Toyotas I have that aren’t presold are the electric ones, the bZ4X, and that’s a little bit of a challenge,” Adam Lee, the chairman of the board at Lee Auto Malls in Maine, told Insider.
EV Fail: Car Dealers Turning Away From Electric Vehicles After Learning Harsh Economics…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on August 29, 2023 at 5:21am — 2 Comments
It's easy to say wind and solar are cheap when you don't take a closer look
Don’t believe the renewables myth. Wind and solar are not cheap
Added by Dan McKay on August 28, 2023 at 6:02am — No Comments
Manipulating the Energy Market to Catapult the Solar and Wind Narrative
A quick review of the numbers from ISO-NE reveals how natural gas prices drives the wholesale market costs of electrical energy.
It is imperative to note that all wholesale generation resources receive the prices driven by natural gas (the clearinghouse price).
Large scale solar and wind received the…
ContinueWhere the hell is wind and solar?
"New England ratepayers faced $536 million in extra charges over 13 months to keep a soon-to-be-retired Massachusetts natural gas plant running in case of regional power shortages, according to grid operator ISO-New England."
Added by Dan McKay on August 23, 2023 at 5:18pm — 3 Comments
Sen. Mark Lawrence, (D) Co-Chair, Energy, Utilities, and Technology Committee, who sponsored the law, said:
"Each time one of these solar sites goes in, we're improving the strength of our distribution system in the state. That increases reliability, that increases efficiency, it decreases power outages. So, it's building the health of our grid."
This man is demented. …
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on August 23, 2023 at 5:30am — 6 Comments
"Bill Nye should stick to doing 7th grade science experiments on TV."
Meteorologist Blasts MSNBC for Trotting Out TV Stooge Bill Nye to Hype Climate Change After Tropical Storm in California (VIDEO)
Added by Dan McKay on August 23, 2023 at 5:27am — No Comments
New Public Comments to the PUC, Aroostook LS Power Transmission Lines
Added by Dan McKay on August 22, 2023 at 5:54am — 2 Comments
Adding 1000 MW King Pine Wind and Maine gets Texas Sized Problems
Wind Output Plaguing Texas (ERCOT weathers on)
By Ed Ireland -- August 21, 2023
Continue“Failures of wind and solar during severe weather events are a problem, but a larger problem is that failures are not confined to severe winter storms. In fact, these failures occur on a daily and even hourly basis. During the summer months, wind tends to die down in the afternoons, causing large drops in…
Added by Dan McKay on August 21, 2023 at 5:53am — No Comments
An EMT Program That Has Ratepayers Subsidizing Commercial and Industrial Organizations
This is No Joke.
Commercial or Industrial Organizations, During Peak Hours of Electricity Demand, Have an Option to Disconnect or Transfer Grid Power to In-House Power and Receive $35 per kilowatt.…
While Maine Uneducated Lawmakers Seek to Double Wind Generation Eclipsing Maine's Peak Load
Maine electric demand peaks at a little over 2000 Megawatts.
The addition of King Pine Wind Project to Maine's wind portfolio will eclipse peak demand OR fail to produce a kilowatt at peak demand.
Texas Grid Operator Asks Residents to Reduce Energy Usage Due to ‘Low…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on August 18, 2023 at 5:18am — No Comments
Maine Bureaucracies and Legislators Setting up Central Maine Power: The Planned Path to Shortages
- "As of March 2022, two…
Added by Dan McKay on August 17, 2023 at 5:30am — 3 Comments
Is net energy billing screwing standard offer customers?
The Maine OPA wants the PUC to investigate the impact NEB has on standard offer supply offers:
Added by Dan McKay on August 16, 2023 at 5:37pm — No Comments
What is it Going to Take to Stop the Madness?
5 Years and billions of dollars to wind and solar projects have little effect on natural gas produced electricity in New England.
5 Years Ago…
Added by Dan McKay on August 15, 2023 at 4:57am — No Comments
Jack Shapiro, NRCM, Doesn'tKnow Jacksh#&
Please, a moment of silence for the death of the Natural Resource Council of Maine (NRCM) who have lied themselves to death.
NRCM’s Climate & Clean Energy Director Jack Shapiro issued the following statement (you can read our original release when these projects were conditionally approved below):
“These are…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on August 12, 2023 at 6:46am — 3 Comments
Tonga's volcano sent tons of water into the stratosphere. That could warm the Earth
The violent eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano injected an unprecedented amount of water directly into the stratosphere — and the vapor will stay there for years, likely affecting the Earth's climate patterns, NASA scientists say.
The massive amount of water vapor is roughly 10% of the normal amount of vapor found in the stratosphere, equaling more than 58,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.
"We've never seen anything like it," said atmospheric scientist Luis…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on August 11, 2023 at 5:04am — 2 Comments
It's About Time for the Maine PUC to Eliminate the "Renewable Energy Credit" Program
Added by Dan McKay on August 6, 2023 at 6:13am — 2 Comments
It Begins, Grassroots Rejection of LS Power to the PUC
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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
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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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