in September 2022, the (Maine PUC) Commission approved stipulations in a case (Docket # 2021-00325) to investigate Transmission and Distribution utility rate design to promote state climate change policy. The approved stipulations allow for the implementation of several new optional electric rates for residential, commercial, and large class customers for electric vehicles, energy storage technologies and heat…
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The Aqua Ventus Project which has been on the PUC's books since 2010 is struggling as this letter of June 30,2023 explains …
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The legislative Council Votes to Accept or Reject Offered Bills To Present to the Whole Legislature.
These Bills Were Offered When It Was Realized the Northern Maine Renewable Was Slipped Through the Previous Legislative Session Before Knowing the Route the Transmission Portion of This Project Was Known by Anyone. A Billion Dollar Plus Transmission Line That the Maine Grid Doesn't Need to Keep Maine People Amply supplied With Electricity.
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Just as the Expedited Wind Law which unconstitutionally designated select areas in Maine that would receive favorable responses from permitting agencies, towns that find themselves at "Ground Zero" to the LS Power Powerline are instituting moratoriums and ordinances …
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Story by Christopher Hutton
State agencies in Maine fell victim to a cyberattack and lost nearly all of the state population's data to hackers.
The state government …
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Despite the fact that the carbon tax applied to fossil fuel generation has tripled in the last 7 years, Natural Gas-fired generation is 4% above the average electrical production since the inception of RGGI.
The PUC calculated that RGGI costs added 0.2 cents per kilowatt hour to ratepayer bills in 2016 and this year is 0.58 cents per kilowatt hour or $2.91 per month per 500 kilowatt hours consumed.
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The Natural Resources Council of Maine, Conservation Law Foundation, Acadia Center, Maine Audubon, The Natural Conservancy, and Maine Conservation Voters jointly submit the attached letter. In this letter, we urge the Commission to work toward a successful conclusion to the negotiation of a Transmission Services Agreement for the Aroostook Renewable Gateway transmission project. This project is designed to unlock the significant onshore wind potential that exists in…
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ISO-NE has a new, creative way to make intermittent solar become dispatchable. No, ISO-NE doesn't plan to make the sun shine at will. READ:
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"According to recent reports filed by CMP and Versant Power, the net ratepayer costs of NEB projects that are already operational are more than $125 million per year.1 The OPA estimates that the cost will rise to approximately $220 million per year once additional projects are completed.…
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Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court rules the state’s governor overextended his power by signing the state up for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, …
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Essentially a " You Can't get There from Here"
Electricity Grids and Secure Energy Transitions (windows.net)
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The stalemate continues. CMP and Versant are not budging from their refusal to commit to the terms from LS Power.
Unbelievably, the PUC isn't budging from its refusal to provide Maine people transparency in this case.
The latest word from the PUC staff: Docket No.…
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This 2007 legislative statement from the "Wind Energy Act" is now 16 years old .
The statement rambles on declaring: "or nuclear fission, thereby displacing electrical energy provided by these other sources"
There are also several passages claiming wind energy "is an economically feasible, large-scale energy…
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Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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