With nothing new on the generator horizon to provide the power needs of data centers, ISO-NE is not feeling good about data center loads. Batteries are basically the only resources being offered through ISO-NE's long term generation outlook portal and noting that batteries are not new generation, in fact, batteries are an impediment to existing generation, ISO-NE had to address this rapidly developing situation and provide FERC (Federal Energy…

4 Months in a row, electricity generating prices have gone up over last year's monthly average as natural gas prices have fallen year over year.

All we hear from our politicians and climate alarmists is how natural gas prices are driving up the cost of electricity. Straight from the horse's mouth, ISO-NE, the data is exposed. The proganda about the evils of natural gas is…

With nothing but solar, wind and batteries offering new generation in the ISO-NE network, the people in charge of overseeing adequate electricity supply in New England have decided to ignore the loads that data centers will add to demand by saying they will have to bring their own power plants.See Below:

What they do not address is how AI proposals to businesses will drive up the need to increase the electricity consumption to increase business productivity.…

PORTLAND (WGME) — "About 1,800 Maine community solar subscribers won't receive the bill credits they expected this month after some solar project sponsors failed to pay a new state-required charge, the CBS13 I-Team has learned."       …

Democrats tell us all the time that the replacement of fossil fuel electrical generating plants with solar/wind/batteries will stabilize electricity prices and, in the long run, will lower electricity bills.I wish they would tell us how charging natural gas plants for carbon dioxide emissions is a good way to stabilize prices. The program that establishes these charges are designed to increase the penalty by annually lowering the emissions allowed, which, basically lowers…

Euro News indentifies a way to help the wind/solar industry:

"By supporting flexible tariffs that encourage households to run energy-intensive appliances like washing machines when renewable generation is abundant, they help to better align electricity demand with supply.'…

The Battery Bubble

Batteries won't save the grid

Here is Troy Jackson talking to Seth Berry about the Aroostook County Wind And Transmission Project

Rememeber, all wind projects in Maine are privately owned and power from these projects are sold by power purchase agreements to utilities, companies like Google or sold as a merchant plant into the ISO-NE administered wholesale market. These power purchase agreements are contracts…

ISO-NE reports reveal that the declarations by Maine Government  and certain environmental groups that higher electric prices are a result of higher natural gas prices are not necessarily true. 

Of course, winter natural gas prices go up due to inadequate pipeline capacity and competition from natural gas heatng.…

"The Energy Institute’s Statistical Review of World Energy, with data for 2025, has been released and shows that fossil fuels still provide 86% of the global energy supply."…

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To the Maine PUC: Could you please explain why you arranged contracts with CMP and Versant to purchase power that raised electric bills by $65,996,299.00 from 2018 to 2025?

Under Maine law, utility companies cannot disconnect residential customers between Nov. 15 and April 15 to protect people from losing heat during the coldest months. Outside that period, however, customers who fall behind on payments can lose…

LCOE = Levelized Cost of Electricity

VCEA = Virginia Clean Energy Act,  which is almost a complete replica of Maine's renewable energy acts

Thanks to "Energy Bad Boys" for this honest assessment of renewable energy costs versus existing energy costs.…