Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published November 4, 2024

Greenhouse gas pollution from electricity generation slid 4% in 2023, according to a new analysis from regional electric grid operator ISO-New England.

Last year's drop in climate-warming carbon dioxide emissions is linked to mild winter and summer…

NB: Posting the link as the content looks to be of interest, but have not yet watched.

By Kate Cough

November 3, 2024

Maine Monitor editor Kate Cough, in a Mitchell Center talk, explores the past and future of energy in Maine.

How can we build enough transmission to meet the needs of an increasingly electrified world? What can be done to make sure those lines are sited responsibly? How can we keep prices down while preparing for a climate with…

By Kate Cough

November 1, 2024

Northern and downeast Maine should be excluded from aspects of rules intended to protect large undeveloped tracts of land from the development of solar, wind and high-impact transmission lines, members of the Board of Environmental Protection recommended at a meeting earlier this month.

The rules are part of new fee programs being developed by the Department of Environmental Protection and the Department of Agriculture, Conservation…

Besides delivering gas to homes, the pipelines also supply power plants that generate electricity, meaning the requests before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will have a ripple effect on the cost of electricity.

November 1, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

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........Three natural gas pipeline operators are looking to increase rates paid by Maine consumers who already face rising electricity prices.

Algonquin…

Three Massachusetts utilities and a transmission line developer have agreed to pass along $512 million in added costs to Massachusetts ratepayers for an electric transmission project in western Maine.

Posted Yesterday at 9:38 PM

Updated at 7:18 AM

DAVID SHARP

Associated Press

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Three Massachusetts utilities and Central Maine Power’s parent company have agreed…

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published October 29, 2024 at 4:42 PM EDT

Two companies have won the rights to develop floating offshore wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine.

Results from the federal government's first-ever wind energy lease sale netted about $22 million in lease payments for four parcels off the coast of Cape Cod and Maine.

Avangrid Renewables, based in Connecticut, submitted winning bids of $4.9 million and $6.2 million for two parcels about…

Avangrid Renewables LLC and Invenergy NE Offshore Wind LLC have won the right to put floating turbines in the Gulf of Maine, bringing the state a big step closer to launching its own wind energy industry.

October 29, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

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Two energy companies submitted winning bids Tuesday to build floating offshore wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine, committing nearly $22 million for half the area available in the largest…

Please click on the link below to read the following stories and much, much more:

https://election-integrity.info/Newsletter/2024/Media_Balance_Newsletter-10-28-24.pdf

The Declining Life Expectancy of Wind Farms

Inflation Reduction Act’s costly green giveaways

The “green” scam of the century: “Renewables” increase fossil fuel demands…

Established electricity purchasing systems, strong demand for clean energy, a supply chain being developed and strong winds are seen as advantages for the Gulf of Maine as a site for offshore wind turbines.

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

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Maine will move closer to staking a claim in offshore wind development when the federal government seeks on Tuesday to auction off eight areas for commercial wind energy leases in the Gulf of…

Feds reject Maine’s request for $456 million to build proposed wind port at Sears Island

Sears Island is Maine's preferred site because the state owns a 100-acre property where a wind port would be built, avoiding lease payments at nearby Mack Point.

October 22, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

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Federal officials have rejected Maine’s application for $456 million to build an offshore wind port at…

October 18, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

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Maine is set to receive more than $65 million from Washington for “smart grid” technology to more quickly connect solar panels and wind turbines to the electricity systems of Central Maine Power Co. and Versant Power and boost renewable power generation.

The Governor’s Energy Office said the collaboration between Maine, CMP and Versant is the first of…

Please click on the link below to read the following stories and much, much more:

https://election-integrity.info/Newsletter/2024/Media_Balance_Newsletter-10-14-24.pdf

*** The DOE Is Stonewalling on Residential Energy Costs and its Electrify Everything

Push

*** Electric grid operators warn U.S. Supreme Court that new EPA rules will cause

widespread blackouts…

Over $135 million, and more is on the way. Gov. Janet Mills says the incentives are reducing the state's reliance on heating oil.

Updated October 12

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

Oil is still the dominant source of home heating in Maine, but it’s being chased by electric heat pumps in a race prodded by Gov. Janet Mills and financed by federal taxpayers, state ratepayers and other funding sources.

The governor has made electric heat pump installation…

"The governor and her team left Sunday and had meetings in Norway, Denmark and Copenhagen all week............."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PRhidi6c4s

The climate action plan’s public ownership goal is a rare transparent moment of anti-capitalist sentiment. Climate commies is probably a bit strong because there is a lot of pursuit of green currency in the climate hustle.

Is your electric bill too high? The climate alarmists are to blame, and it is likely to get worse before it gets better.

September brought a super full moon,…

Freedom Studies - Greenhouse Gas Lighting

Posted on October 10, 2024

In a – they didn’t really think solar is free moment – power users in Maine are being belted with crushing power bills and told by the powers that be to expect much more of the same.

Where numerous businesses are being driven to the wall, thousands of householders are being hit especially hard, with punitive rates designed to prop up the state’s grand solar scam.

And the article below, Billy Kobin reports on one inevitable consequence…

Updated October 11

Daniel Kool

Press Herald

Gov. Janet Mills and a handful of state officials are headed back to Maine after a trip to Scandinavia to discuss the growth of offshore wind with government and industry officials in Norway and Denmark.

Following two days in Norway, Mills and a team of state officials traveled to Denmark on…

We hopped on a boat off Massachusetts to see what Maine’s offshore wind future could look like

Maine Public | By Molly Enking, Peter McGuire

Published October 8, 2024 at 6:13 PM EDT

Maine Public’s climate desk, along with colleagues from the New England News…

By Libby Palanza

October 9, 2024

The New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA) will be sending Gov. Janet Mills a petition with over 2,500 signatures urging her to halt the development of offshore wind farms in the Gulf of Maine, according to a source close to the matter.

NEFSA is a bipartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to helping save the region’s commercial…