BY TUX TURKEL PRESS HERALD

New legislation would require the Public Utilities Commission to procure enough electricity from offshore wind farms to power 980,000 homes.

Proposed legislation unveiled Tuesday would call for the purchase of offshore wind-generated electricity in amounts that could supply every home in the state, and then some.

Wind turbines that would float in the Gulf of Maine are still in development and not yet a reality. But a…

Bruce Mohl

Jan 16, 2023

IT’S BEEN 3 ½ YEARS since Massachusetts utilities negotiated a massive power purchase agreement with Hydro-Quebec, and the electricity still isn’t close to flowing because of repeated delays in building a transmission line from the Canadian border down through Maine.

Hydro-Quebec officials say they are ready to deliver the power as soon as the transmission line is completed, but an upcoming change in administration at the Quebec-owned company and…

Northern Maine Community College gets federal money to expand wind power curriculum

Maine Public | By Carol Bousquet

Published January 13, 2023 at 5:43 PM EST

There are no words for the level of lying and concealment in the Maine and U.S. media on behalf of "green".

Ignorance has consequences. So please, talk to your friends. Silence is one of the bad guys' greatest allies.

Another jump in Maine electric prices in 2023 forces many into financial challenges - YouTube

Wind to improve grid reliability when the damn stuff can't be stored at grid scale? Who was behind this kind of reporting? Troy Jackson up in Aroostook seems like he could be salivating. The issue now heads back to the Maine Public Utilities Commission. The wind developer, Longroad Energy, is in large part the old coterie of crony capitalists from First Wind. See:…

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The U.S. Will Need Thousands of Wind Projects. Will Small Towns Go Along?

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Renewables (And Me) In The New Yorker

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'We are on the brink of DISASTER!' - power from…

The view of Katahdin in the photo is from the east, the site of possible hideous wind "farms" which would destroy one of the greatest views in the northeast, if not the entire U.S. When the so called environmental groups lobbied for the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, the towns to the east of Katahdin were promised an economic boom from tourism to the monument as they would be the "gateway communities". Millinocket, already the gateway community to Baxter State Park for the vast…

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The scientific community was amazed this week by news of a breakthrough in the generation of power from nuclear fusion, long one of the holy grails of renewable energy.

It’s an exciting development. Maybe one day, fusion sources will be part of a robust mix supplying all the clean energy we need.

But…

Fox News host Tucker Carlson Monday night went to bat for the Maine lobster.

He interviewed guest Rosie Moore, a geoscientist who explained how President Joe Biden’s major push for offshore wind power threatens the extinction of the right whale.

Maine’s lobster industry is under threat from onerous federal regulation because of a fictitious belief on the part of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) regulators that lobster gear is a threat to whales.

Yet…

Hey, will this be as successful as the university's much touted wind turbine at Presque Isle? (The one the media covered up).

UMaine launches workforce training program for offshore wind industry

By Laurie Schreiber

The University of Maine said it is launching a program to train workers for the offshore wind…

by The BDN Editorial Board December 2, 2022

A year after voters soundly rejected a power line corridor through western Maine, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the referendum was unconstitutional. The court also ruled that the lease at the heart of the dispute over the transmission line was valid, negating a central argument of opponents of the project.

Whether you support or oppose the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC), this is a troubling outcome, mostly…

Maine Public | By Kevin Miller

Published November 29, 2022

Maine's highest court has sided with the state and Central Maine Power over a lease needed to construct a controversial transmission line through western Maine.

In a ruling Tuesday morning, Maine's Supreme Judicial Court said that the Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands "acted within its constitutional and statutory authority" when granting CMP a lease through state-owned lands in 2020.

The lease…

Based on resource limitations alone, EV's for all will be impossible. But what is possible is they will help destroy the internal combustion engine industry. Then, only the wealthy will have EV's to drive and I guess the rest of us will simply be told to stay home and be happy.

November 21, 2022 by John Hinderaker

Governments at both the federal and state levels tell us we are in the midst of a transition from internal combustion vehicles to electric vehicles.…

by Mehr Sher

11/21/22

Excerpts:

.......The stakes for the siting of solar farms are increasing given Maine’s statutory target of 80 percent clean energy by 2030 and a recent rapid increase in solar development often requiring the clearing of many acres......

Since 2018, available data show approved solar farms ranging from one to 926 acres, with the majority being within 20 to 45 acres. Of the permitted projects, 10 are described as being more than 100…

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*** Renewable Energy: Intermittency Has Major Consequences

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Note that in this interview with the director of the "Joint Center for Energy Storage Research", EV's are a done deal, not a personal choice. These reckless fools think they will make us go mostly renewables, yet they have no way to store it. So the dirty little secret comes out, i.e., that WE will have to change. Translation: You won't just drive your vehicle anytime and anywhere in the future, peasants.

Question:

Would people, in your…

Utility regulators blame high natural gas prices on the continued surge in electric supply rates.

BY TUX TURKEL

PRESS HERALD

For a second year in a row, most customers of Central Maine Power will see their electricity supply rates rise in 2023, reflecting a trend driven largely by the high cost of natural gas that fuels many power plants in New England.

Beginning on Jan. 1, new “standard offer” supply rates for home and small business customers in CMP’s…

by Sawyer Loftus

November 4, 2022

A company that owns biomass electricity plants in West Enfield and Jonesboro and had access to millions in state subsidies to help it stay afloat has filed for bankruptcy, stating it owes $17.8 million to creditors including an energy market investor, the states of Maine and New Hampshire, and Maine loggers.

Stored Solar LLC and all but one of its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September in U.S.…