In her excellent book Shorting the Grid: The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid, Meredith Angwin describes how a combination of bad policy, complicated governance, and dense bureaucracy has made the entire electric grid of New England incredibly vulnerable to collapse, especially during winter cold snaps (you can buy Angwin’s book here and…

Prices for just about everything went up in 2021 as economies recovered from the worst of the coronavirus pandemic and demand outpaced supply, driving high-profile debates about inflation and global supply chains.

Higher costs for energy are a central variable to that equation, as the prices of oil, gas, and other fuels are embedded in the cost of everything, from the manufacturing and moving of products to generating electricity.

Here's how much energy prices went up over the…

Small and safe reactors can be built close to where the demand is greatest, thus eliminating lengthy, wide transmission lines, dams and fossil fuels.

By Richard Bedard Special to the Press Herald

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The former Republican in me says it is OK to cut a tree, because our need for electricity is so great. Oh, how I miss Dick Hill, longtime University of Maine mechanical engineering professor, at a time like this.

His mind would have done the…

A question asked about the Northern Maine, Troy Jackson proposal to build wind projects in the County and have the costs applied to Maine electric bills

12/22/21

By Peter McGuire Staff Writer

Public funding for new vehicle incentives and charging stations to meet Maine's climate goals is projected to fall short by more than $100 million, according to the state-commissioned report.

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Rapidly electrifying cars and trucks in Maine is the fastest way to reduce greenhouse gas pollution and meet the state’s climate change goals, but getting there will be an uphill ride, a new report commissioned by the state…

No other industry in American history has ever received this lucrative a paycheck

How much would solar, wind and electric vehicle companies have gotten in federal handouts and tax loopholes in President Joe Biden's Build Back Better bill? Well over $100 billion in taxpayer largesse. If all the tax credits are…

Letter to the editor | The Ellsworth American | December 17, 2021

12/21/2021

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the 21 public utility commissions that will receive technical assistance from the National Laboratories to help state regulators make decisions and develop innovative solutions to improve grid reliability and resiliency, enable the adoption of new technologies, promote energy and environmental justice, and develop strategies to decarbonize their electric grids.

“Public utility commissions…

Dear Governor: On December 6, New England’s electric grid operator warned that your state is at “heightened risk” of power outages this winter. According to ISO New England President Gordon van Welie, “controlled power outages” would most likely occur during an extended period of extreme cold, when, for millions of local residents and…

"Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind" - just one example of what they've been doing to us

It has been very clear to some of us for some time that the insane push for feckless "renewable energy" is part of a bigger plan to weaken the United States of America.

If we knew our history and had a media that would tell us the truth, we could all make better decisions about what to believe.

Congressional Record — Appendix, pp. A34-A35

January 10,…

Industrial Wind Turbines Once Again are Up to Their Old Tricks

California To Slash Rooftop Solar Subsidies, Add New Fees

Green Energy Push Is Contributing To Forced Labor, Slavery

Offshore wind project go-ahead ‘will be disastrous’ for already-struggling seabirds

Is nuclear energy green? France and Germany lead opposing camps.

*** Report: Fossil fuels for China, Decarbonization for everyone else

Biden's New "Regressive" Methane Tax Will Raise Average…

by Lori Valigra

December 16, 2021

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The federal government will have more control over large electric grid expansions under a little-noticed portion of the sweeping infrastructure law, potentially letting it override state decisions on large projects such as Maine’s stalled hydropower corridor.

The $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill signed by…

The climate change cabal has succeeded in raising the price of electricity to an amount that enables wind and solar projects to claim that they can save electric costs.

Thomas Catenacci

Energy & Environment Reporter

December 13, 2021 8:30 PM ET

Products that are fundamental to nearly all global “green pledges” — including electric vehicle batteries, solar panels, wind turbines and industrial-grade storage batteries — require minerals that are produced with significant human rights violations.

Overall, about 45% of the world’s solar panel polysilicon supply is produced in the Uyghur region of China, according to a Sheffield…

***Wind Energy companies accused of bid rigging and racketeering in US lawsuit

Public should know true costs of state's push for carbon-free grid

Energy poverty in Europe is linked to expensive renewables

Fine Video: Wind Turbines: Salvation or Ruin? Part 1: Wind Energy & Humans

Offshore wind grid woes may be worse than previously thought

Biden’s offshore wind goal is a waste of energy

Power Brief: China Flexes…

I am not surprised at the lack of public trust in Washington, DC, and elsewhere. The games of smoke and mirrors played in Washington are off-the-charts outrageous.

Never, ever, has there been such a level of deceit, as Democrats have inflicted on the US People, since January 2021, using a controversial election in 2020 (see Appendix), to obtain government power, to relentlessly implement:

- An increased size and intrusiveness of the federal government

-…