In 2014, when Maine had 894-megawatt nameplate capacity wind development of the state's current 1013 megawatt nameplate capacity wind development operating, 57% had power purchase agreements with Massachusetts' utilities.

Maine NEB and Tariff Rate solar development sells 64% of their RECs to Massachusetts' utilities.

The charts following discloses the origin of RECs purchased to comply with Maine's Class 1, Class 1A and Class 2 renewable portfolio…

1 National Renewable Energy Laboratory

2 U.S. Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Wind Energy Technologies Office

Just as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative peaks the price per ton of C02 ( $14.88 per ton), Maine C02 eclipses the 2019 C02 totals by 1,239,880 tons in 2022. Keep sending that wind and solar energy to Massachusetts and they will keep sending natural gas our way, but Maine might want to get out of the RGGI program first.

The people of the EUT Committee had a face to face discussion with the PUC and concerns over stranded costs paid by electricity ratepayers came up.  Seems the PUC estimates that future stranded costs  could be somewhere between 1 cent per kilowatt hour to 4 cents per kilowatt hour. In other words, a good portion of the decrease in 2024 electricity supply prices could be eaten up by increases in electric delivery prices driven by legislative policies. i.e. stranded costs associated…

Staff of Natural Resources Council of Maine Look to Unionize Over Toxic Company Culture

BY STEVE ROBINSONDECEMBER 19, 2023UPDATED:DECEMBER 19,…

CMP would like you to know:    AMP participants’ electricity usage is significantly higher than the average customer

The Maine PUC would like you to Know: "A T&D Utility may recover in rates all costs of its AMP, including incremental costs, reconnection fees and administrative and marketing costs....."

SATARTIA, Miss. – On Feb. 22, 2020, a clear Saturday after weeks of rain, Deemmeris Debra'e Burns, his brother and cousin decided to go fishing. They were headed home in a red Cadillac when they heard a boom and saw a big white cloud shooting into the evening…

 "The Millstone Nuclear Power Station in Connecticut has been operating at 40% capacity since October 20^th, which has led to increased natural gas consumption for power generation in New England."

1/3 of wind turbines in Spain to be dismantled within five years

7,500 wind turbines in Spain to be dismantled within five years

Approximately 36% of energy-generating wind turbines in Spain will need to be decommissioned within the next five years as they become obsolete, predicts the Wind Energy Association (AEE). This translates to around 7,500 wind turbines and 20,000 blades turning into scrap that will have to be dismantled, transported, and processed, posing a…

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100 California St, Suite 650

San Francisco, CA 94111

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December 12, 2023

The Honorable Philip L. Bartlett II, Chairman

The Honorable Patrick Scully, Commissioner

The Honorable Carolyn Gilbert, Commissioner

Office of the Commissioners

Maine Public Utilities Commission

18 State House Station

Augusta, ME…

African Energy Chamber to COP28: We Want Fossil Fuels!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 13, 2023

Ed note: As COP28 wound down, the African Energy Chamber issued this…

Should Maine propose to pay for the extra half billion dollars( a third of the project cost) it is going to take to build the New England Clean Energy Connect if Maine can receive ownership of an annual 3.15 MWH( megawatt hours) of hydro-electric power at Nearly 100% Capacity Factor? 3.15 MWH is about 30% of Maine's annual electricity consumption making NECEC a great way to supply reliable baseload power. The type of power that keeps the furnace or heat pump…

 Case #   2023-00316

II. BACKGROUND

During the 2023 legislative session, the Legislature enacted L.D. 1850, An Act

Relating to Energy Storage and the State’s Energy Goals (Act). P.L. 2023, c. 374. The

Act directs the Commission to “solicit stakeholder input on whether and, if so, at what

cost and under what conditions, including Commission approval on a case-by-case

basis, an investor-owned transmission and distribution…