WHEN HOUSE DEMOCRATS first floated a plan to take the teeth out of the state’s next big deadline for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, Gov. Maura Healey did not have much to say about it.

Instead, she wanted to talk about reducing household electricity and gas costs.

“I haven’t seen the outlines of any specific plan on that,” she said in November, three days after CommonWealth Beacon …

Maine electric ratepayers are ordered to reach into their pockets and come up with $103,430,218 to fund the bureaucracy known as Efficiency Maine Trust for the year July 2026 to June 2027, up from $46,910,468 in…

Refund RGGI Money Back to Maine Ratepayers too

Massachusetts House passes landmark energy bill with deep cuts to Mass Save, sending it to Senate

Jordan Wolman, CommonWealth Beacon

February 26, 2026

HOUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE passed a major energy bill that aims to cut rising utility costs that have…

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AUGUSTA, Maine – A late-session rewrite of LD 2174 is drawing fresh scrutiny at the State House after Rep. Liz Caruso (R–Caratunk) warned the bill could override local ordinances and weaken town authority over major energy developments.

During a radio discussion Monday on the Ric Tyler/George Hill Show on WVOM, Caruso described LD 2174 as a textbook “strike and replace” maneuver, where a bill’s contents are swapped out while keeping the…

An economy, culture and science going backwards thanks to intermittent renewables. …

A Climate Convert

In her own words...

https://criticallythinking.substack.com/p/a-climate-convert?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

What the Government giveth, the Government can taketh away'

"A federal judge has dealt a blow to solar companies’ attempt to block a rollback of state incentives for the industry passed by Maine lawmakers.......................…

From EIA:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67104

"Petroleum-fired generation in New England reached almost 8.0 GW between January 25 and 26, exceeding the capacity available from units that predominantly use petroleum, indicating contribution from fuel-switching units. Almost 41% of New England’s 15.1 GW natural gas-fired generating capacity can switch fuels to burn DFO. Operators…

1. Q. Is ISO-NE and NESCOE independent agencies?

    A. The ISO acts as the billing and collection agent for the New England States Committee on Electricity                  (NESCOE) for recovery of amounts reflected in the annual NESCOE budget.