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Impacts to scenic character from a wind energy development’s associated facilities are generally evaluated in the manner set forth in the WEA, 35-A M.R.S. §3452 (1) & (3).

However, if the Department determines that application of the WEA…

CMP’s “New England Clean Energy Connect” Transmission Line Proposal - February 21, 2018

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Maine and New England need to increase the use of renewable power to further reduce fossil fuel burning and meet our critically important greenhouse gas reduction goals. However, there are many ways to achieve that objective. First and foremost, we should look to new renewable energy…

FOIA.gov - Freedom of Information Act: How to Make a FOIA Request

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The Castine 1/8th-scale Turbine study                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               This study is just another study in a long line of wind energy research performances. This so called test turbine, at 20 kW is claimed to be a 1/8th-scale…

Rumford Falls Times

Feb. 21, 2018

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NOTICE OF INTENT TO FILE

Please take notice that RoxWind LLC (mailing address: 13 Elm Street, Suite 200, Cohasset, MA, 02025, telephone: 781-383-3200) intends to file applications with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to the provisions of Title 35-A M.R.S. 3456 for certification that the wind energy development being proposed has been designed to meet the noise, shadow flicker, and public…

The Nature Conservancy is a massive organization and a global player.

You'll find a description of their organization and their methodology for assessing the impact of hydroelectric generating plants on 'nature'. This affects FERC relicensing of all Maine plants up for renewal; Maine is the second largest hydro generator in New England. 

There is one slide listing all the impacts a hydroplant has; it could serve as a template for measuring the impact of a wind…

Vermont has a Standard Offer, SO, program that uses federal, state and other subsidies and feed-in tariffs, c/kWh, in excess of wholesale prices to increase the build-out renewable energy systems. Most of those systems are large-scale, field-mounted solar systems. The Public Utilities Commission, PUC, oversees the program and issues a Certificate of Public Good for each project. This article examines the economics of a large-scale solar system.

This article examines the…

"In Maine, plans to erect turbines atop ridges have outraged people worried about marring the rugged landscape and hurting tourism. The group Friends of Maine's Mountains has been fighting wind-energy developments in the state Legislature, before regulatory panels and in the courts. It has managed to slow or stop nearly all of the proposals.

Group spokesman Christopher O'Neil said he knows wind farms remain popular with many people in distant, more populated areas near Portland or…

As I have discovered over the years, wind industry research is not really research, it is a performance designed to fool the ignorant.  I have not read a single wind industry related study or survey conducted after 1985 that I consider credible. The studies conducted for this wind project fall into this same pattern.   The results derived from the research conducted for the Aqua Ventus wind project, by New Jersey Audubon, Stantec Consulting Services and the University of Maine,  Castine 1/8…

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On Friday, the Maine Renewable Energy Association, an Augusta group representing wind and other renewable energy producers, sued LePage in Kennebec County Superior Court. It followed a January suit in a state court from the Boston-based Conservation Law Foundation.…

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

Maine: A proposed law amending wind energy regulation

Maine bill would gut wind energy streamlined permitting process

Research into mountain wind projects: major risk to visitor economy

End of federal wind industry handouts is long overdue

Wind projects are disrupting our way of life

Wind project under criminal investigation for bat and eagle deaths

Nebraska: A proposal to…

Trump budget cuts renewable energy office…

Based on the plan of eliminating fossil fuel plants (they emit CO2 and particulates) and nuclear fuel plants (they are alleged to be dangerous) by 2050, the existing gas, nuclear, coal and oil generating plants would be decommissioned and no new ones would be built.

This would require huge build-outs of wind, solar, and storage systems, and increased electricity supply via external ties to adjacent grids. There is no way one can close down nuclear, oil, gas and coal plants,…

Extremely good read!  https://nypost.com/2017/11/09/stop-subsidizing-the-big-wind-bullies/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=site%20buttons&utm_campaign=site%20buttons

Last month, Anne Reynolds, executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York, complained that the state is a “tough place to…

But those industries are fighting to turn Maine into a place that supplies green energy to wealthy states south of here that do not want those towering turbines in their back yards. He says Maine should be the “Saudi Arabia of wind power.”

Maine is lagging New England in job growth by 28,000 jobs. He says 1,560 of these jobs are filled by wind and/or solar here in Maine. He got his report from the “Economic impacts of wind energy construction and…

Matt Cota, executive director of the Vermont Fuel Dealers Association testified: “Cold-climate heat pumps are inadequate during the colder days in winter. Many households with heat pumps found they could not adequately heat their houses. They had to turn off the heat pumps, which are very inefficient in cold weather, and turn on their oil and propane stoves or their wood stoves.”

Since about 2010, Efficiency Vermont and VPIRG have been extolling the virtues…