The original SPEED program, started in July 2010, was repealed and replaced by Act 56 of 2015, the Renewable Portfolio Standard, RPS, act, which requires 55% of utility retail electricity sales to be from renewable sources by 2017; 75% by 2032. The SPEED program replacement is called Standard Offer, SO, as described in 30 VSA 8005b.

SO projects, 2.2 MW or less:

Those projects have a cap of 127.5 MW by 2022; about 60,850 kW, all energy sources, has been…

We should add that Portland is at least consistent in protecting its residents from noise - a city ordinance essentially banned industrial wind turbines over five years ago. Now if they'd only think of their fellow Mainers outside of Portland and help repeal the heinous expedited wind law, given to us by former Governor Baldacci and his wind industry friends. By the way, Baldacci said in a radio interview yesterday, he'd…

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is no longer enforcing regulations to protect the citizens of Massachusetts.

From April 7, 1985 -"Tax credits guarantee a market" and "Federal tax credits are scheduled to end after this year."                                                                                                                                                                        From Dec 17 1980 - "Wind is not the solution to the energy crisis."   They knew it back then and they still know it. In other words, since it is not a solution that can meet…

What’s notable about the report is the absence of a monomaniacal advocacy for renewables, combined with a sober description of grid engineering and physics. That tone, by itself, is a sea change.........And for discerning policymakers, the key takeaway from the report amounts to a go-slow for those eager to rapidly force far more VRE on the grid – VRE, variable renewable energy, is DOE’s euphemism for solar and wind.........We also find DOE saying that when it comes to…

Massachusetts: Organizing  Against Nuisance Commercial Wind Turbines Near Your Property 

Are there another 27,000 bald eagles living in the Great Lake States?  No but greedy wind developers and the Interior Department want you to think so.  These numbers are not real. These are fake Interior Department numbers created…

Members of the environmental left like to portray themselves as do gooders - social justice warriors who walk on a higher plane, saving the planet and saving its unwashed ignorant commoners from themselves. Their advocacy of wind power (which they often do because their funders instruct them to do so) hardly constitutes "social justice" and disproportionately harms the poor.

Unlike the wealthy who can lawyer up, the poor cannot as readily fight off wind developers. The wealthy…

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In the article this dead eagle image came from, important statements were made………………

On July 27th Massachusetts closed their bids for clean energy. Over Four Dozen bidders including Emera and CMP put in bids for Maine Wind. 

Several months ago Massachusetts told us that they would NOT approve running a Natural Gas Main through their state for us here in Maine to allow gas for heating and…

I'm not sure, but I happen to believe there is a wolf in the sheep herd by the name of Rick Perry. Perry, a strong proponent of wind power and now the head of the energy department, seems to be corrupting the very study he asked for. The study that was just released this week that we covered earlier, proposed that renewable variable output energy should be replaced by baseload energy from gas and coal and nuclear and steer away from feckless, expensive wind and solar for stability and…

Iowa, the largest state in the Union supporting wind power, created by and strongly supported by Republicans and Democrats at the state and local level, has completely sold out to the wind industry. Most of these huge wind farms are being built in the rural farm areas of the state, which is MOST of the state. Farmers were excited in the beginning, 1983, that they would be able to reap, or rape, the wind industry of "leasing money" for use of part of their farms to build turbines. Well, it's…