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California Power Companies Propose Fixed-Rate Bill Based on Income, Not Usage
KTLA reported:
ContinueSouthern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric, and San Diego Gas & Electric submitted a joint proposal to the state’s Public Utilities Commission last week that outlines the new rate structure. It follows last year’s passage of Assembly Bill 205 which requires a fixed rate and…
The Power to Control the Electric Market Always Goes to The Biggest Users
Massachusetts has an aggressive policy to de-carbonate electricity generation, as do all the New England States.
Added by Dan McKay on June 10, 2023 at 7:45am — No Comments
Blackouts Are Expected This Summer Due to Biden’s Green Energy Transition
Added by Dan McKay on June 9, 2023 at 12:52pm — No Comments
ISO-NE Doesn't Seem to Notice it's Been Overcast with Rain for the Week
JUNE 8, 2023
Canadian wildfires impacting solar production, electricity demand in New England
In recent days, smoke from wildfires in Canada has traveled to New England, significantly lowering production from solar resources in the region compared to what ISO New England would expect absent the smoke.
Most solar resources in…
Surging New England Energy Prices: No Surprise
By Steve Goreham -- May 30, 2023
“New England home heating and electricity prices are on the rise with no end in sight. Consumers paid record high energy bills last winter, even though the winter was not unusually cold. Shortages of natural gas and green energy policies will drive New England prices higher and raise the chance of electricity blackouts.”
Residential energy bills in New England this year were the…
ContinueWhere O Where is Maine Getting Its 51% Renewables
April 2023 Generation in New England
A Grid Screaming for Nuclear
“California’s Duck Curve Hits Record Lows”
“The forced energy transformation crowd continues to be in denial about how badly the California grid has been compromised by wind and solar, how…
Added by Dan McKay on May 23, 2023 at 5:41am — 2 Comments
The Chase for Carbon Zero is Futile With Wind and Solar, With or Without Storage
The following is a guest article by Bryan Leyland.
Many governments in the Western world have committed to “net zero” emissions of carbon in the near future. The US and UK both say they will deliver by 2050. It’s widely believed that wind and solar power can achieve this. This belief has led the US and British governments, among others, to promote and heavily subsidize wind and…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on May 21, 2023 at 6:02pm — 2 Comments
All Clean Energy Paths Point to Dispatchable Nuclear
The Six New England States Have Lofty Renewable Targets
Connecticut @ 100% Target
Massachusetts @…
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At the Heart of a Proposed CMP and Versant Takeover
Added by Dan McKay on May 19, 2023 at 5:25am — No Comments
US power grid faces possible shortages this summer due to green energy push, watchdog says
Added by Dan McKay on May 17, 2023 at 5:52pm — No Comments
BOEM Seeks Public Input on Draft Environmental Analysis for Proposed Wind Energy Project Offshore New Jersey
How to Comment
Comments can be submitted in the following ways:
- In written form by mail, enclosed in an envelope labeled “Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind South COP DEIS” and addressed to Program Chief, Office of Renewable Energy Programs, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 45600…
Added by Dan McKay on May 17, 2023 at 5:30am — No Comments
Maine says construction of CMP power corridor can resume
Added by Dan McKay on May 17, 2023 at 5:20am — 2 Comments
After They Tried to Sink Lobstermen with North Atlantic Right Whales
Dear Federal Government: Transparency on Wind and Whales, Please - Master Resource
"The LOA(Letter of Authorization) is premature for another reason as well. In October 2022, NOAA and NMFS, along with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), issued a draft strategy for addressing the impacts of…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on May 16, 2023 at 5:59am — 2 Comments
The "Taking" of the Whales, The Dolphins, The Seals = Corruption
By Sherri Lange -- May 15, 2023
“As of mid-March 2023, NOAA Fisheries has handed out 15 marine mammal Incidental Take Authorizations (ITAs) to offshore wind projects from NC to MA. These will allow companies to ‘take’ 111,817 whales, dolphins and seals. The harassment, injury, and killing of marine mammals are referred to as…
ContinueHow Living Like Cave People Would Be So Virtuous
How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change
In medieval times, gamekeepers trained dogs to the hunt…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on May 14, 2023 at 6:47am — 2 Comments
Rising costs of solar subsidies in Maine prompts debate over program’s future
https://www.mainepublic.org/people/kevin-miller
Maine's public advocate is warning that electric ratepayers are about to be hit with another price increase unless lawmakers change a law that encourages solar energy development.
"This program just keeps giving and giving,” said William Harwood of Maine’s Office of the Public Advocate. “There are more…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on May 13, 2023 at 5:18am — 3 Comments
A rate hike that should have never happened.
Natural gas prices dictate the wholesale price of electricity in New England. The price of wind and solar projects dictate the retail price of electricity in Maine(Over 2000 megawatts)
"The Vice President of customer service for CMP, Linda Ball, says of the 62,000 disconnect notices that went out this year about 5%, or 3,100 customers had their power turned off. The increase is…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on May 11, 2023 at 6:13am — No Comments
A 10 Percent ‘Community Solar’ Discount? Think Again!
By Joseph Toomey -- May 9, 2023
Continue“A 10% reduction off the retail rate for wholesale power would net Summit Ridge Energy a price of $0.1181 per kWh, which is 244% higher than the average wholesale rate in 2021 that all other power producers received. And that boost will be absorbed and passed on to all retail ratepayers.”
“The $2.5 billion investment in production plants that Q-Cells promises isn’t really coming from the company,…
How can electric ratepayers be on the hook for 220 million dollars NET ENERGY BILLING
The Ratepayers are underwriting the following destruction of income, environmental disaster and lobbyists' dreams, thanks to a brainwashed legislature and governor:
Chair Lawrence, Chair Zeigler and Honorable Persons of the EUT Committe
LD 1347 "An Act to Eliminate the Current Net…
Added by Dan McKay on May 8, 2023 at 4:14pm — No Comments
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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
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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 on the Maine expedited wind law
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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