• What is going on with RGGI and electric heat pumps?
• RGGI CO2 allowance costs have gone up 500% in the last 6 Years. $5.27 per allowance to $26.73 per allowance.
• RGGI costs add 2% to electric bills which, in turn, raise the cost of heating with heat pumps.
• The New Model Rule being adopted by the ten States in RGGI are extremely aggressive and will increase allowance prices…

"New England has enacted the nation’s most aggressive climate policies to phase out oil, gas, and coal and achieve a 100% renewable energy target by 2050. While it’s easy to blame utility companies and the federal government for exacerbating the electricity crisis, state policies—namely, New England’s decarbonization plans—bear more responsibility for inviting energy insecurity and associated higher costs."

"By continuing down its decarbonization…

RGGI presents New England electric customers with a dilemma. Even if Maine decided to stop participating in RGGI, the costs of RGGI developed from other New England State's RGGI membership will permeate throughout the ISO-NE wholesale markets where the supply portion of monthly electric bills originate. The alternative would be to divert the amount of RGGI payments paid by the five fossil fuel plants located in Maine that are dedicated to Efficiency Maine Trust and return this money…

Take a look at this chart:

The blue line is the business as usual "allowable emissions" which only cost Maine electricity customers about $47 million dollars last year, the most for any year Maine has been in RGGI. The light blue line represents a straight-line trajectory to achieve the emission goals of Maine State policy. The green line is based on RGGIs New Model…

The battle is on. To hell with carbon dioxide. To hell with the renewables. To hell with RGGI. The grid operators fight back

https://isonewswire.com/2026/01/23/iso-ne-issues-cold-weather-watch-ahead-of-winter-storm/

The U S Department of Energy Attacks RGGI

"...... the orders authorize ISO New England Inc. (ISO-NE) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to run specified resources located within the ISO-NE region and ERCOT region, regardless of limits established by environmental permits or state law.'…

Governor LePage appears at 1:33 of clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqvPd9abfrg&pp=ygULcGF1bCBsZXBhZ2U%3D

• Nearly 40% of the total homes in Connecticut are heated with natural gas through pipelines. Over 50% in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The percentage grows dramatically for those who have homes adjacent to natural gas pipelines.

• Why? Because natural gas is a less expensive heating fuel than oil…

Maine PUC Case [2025-00351]

COMMISSION INITIATED RENEWABLE ENERGY PROCUREMENT - REPOWERING AND CONTINUED MAINTENANCE OF EXISTING RESOURCES PURSUANT TO 35-A M.R.S. S. 3210-K

it will direct investor owned transmission & distribution utilities (T&D Utilities) to enter into one or…

Oil is burning by the hundreds of thousand gallons to keep people warm and with electricity.

Just remember, the Dems want to replace oil and natural gas with intermittent wind and solar and make batteries the electricity of last resort for those that can afford it.   BRRRRRRR!!…

How do these Democrats keep getting away with waiting to the last minute to provide language to these Concept Bills only to tell everyone present for the public hearing to ignore the language because they not really going to write the bill until work session and behind closed doors AKA "Caucus"

Scheduled for Feb. 5 2026 Sponsored by Representative Sachs LD 307

Be it enacted by the People of the State…

The "Maine Wire" has an article about the Taxation Committee of the Maine Legislaure proposing monetary electric bill relief to low income customers through tax credits, whether one owes taxes or not. This is one Committee covering up for another Committee as in the Taxation Committee covering for rate hikes developed in the EUT Committee. Isn't it interesting that the sponsor of this bill, Kilton Webb, serves not only in the Taxation Commiittee, but serves in the EUT Committee as…

Here it is.         The Aroostook County Renewable Energy Development Program presented and packaged as an innocuous, unimportant, and another boring PUC solicitation 

                                                  " Request for Proposals

                                                               …

Here is a little nugget from the Maine Department of Energy Resources copied from their report:

"Maine Energy Profile"

Maine Energy Profile | Maine Department of Energy Resources

"Maine’s total in-state electricity generation has increased from approximately 12 million MWh in 2015 to nearly 15 million MWh in 2024, as shown in Figure 2. The use of natural gas to produce…

OP-ED: Maine’s New Energy Authority Is a Blank Check With Your Name on It

Maine lawmakers are now considering LD 838 titled “An Act to Establish the Maine Clean Energy Authority,” a bill sponsored by Senator Mark Lawrence and co-sponsored by every Democrat member of the Energy, Utilities, and Technology Committee. Although the bill was originally introduced as a concept draft (commonly used as a bait-and-switch tactic within the…