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Poor families spend multiple times more of their hard-earned income on heat and electricity than their more affluent neighbors.....Efforts by environmental groups have blocked expansion at every turn. They reject cleaner-burning natural gas in favor of burning high-emission oil in our power plants......

The full letter is here:…

Efforts by some environmental activists to block natural gas infrastructure, mainly pipelines, have had the opposite of their intended effect. The goal was to prevent more greenhouse gas emissions, but the constraints on natural gas have forced electricity generators to turn to high-emission coal and oil instead. Gas is a fossil fuel, but it releases less carbon than coal and oil. The region would have produced less pollution this month, not more, if it had better gas…

Dishonesty? No sorry that doesn't fly, not when the entire expedited wind law, a bill written by and for the wind industry was dishonestly sold to Mainers as a panacea. Not when former Maine senate president Justin Alfond was caught exchanging 171 pages of emails with the wind industry. Not when the Maine Power Reliability Program (MPRP)…

This is a pretty neat article. I wonder how many more of these go off and we don't know about them. I also wonder how much CO2 is generated into the atmosphere. Nature seems to be doing as much as man.

http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/1/e1701121.full

How Trump's Tax Plan Made It Harder to Finance Renewables

By Brian Eckhouse and Chris Martin

January 12, 2018, 9:45 AM EST

 

At least $3 billion of tax-equity investments on hold

PosiGen ‘just lost $100 million in tax equity last week’

PosiGen Inc. was close to finalizing…

Something seems to be afoot in Roxbury, ME with a company named RoxWind, LLC associated with attorney  John Richardson of Moncure & Barnicle in Topsham and a gubernatorial candidate in 2010, commissioner of the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development under Governor John Baldacci between 2007-2009, and a Maine legislator for Brunswick…

Watch the video at the following link - starting at about 18…

An Act To Amend the Laws Regarding Distributed Energy Generation and To Eliminate Gross Metering
(EMERGENCY)

Thursday, January 11, 2018 1:00 PM,Cross Building, Room 211

This bill opens the 2018 version of the Augusta Feed-In Trough .

This PPH shill piece is wrong on so many counts. It feels as though it was almost dictated to the paper's editorial board by the wind industry and/or the University of Maine. It's all about getting "free money" from the government. Nothing more.

https://www.pressherald.com/2018/01/11/our-view-maine-should-stay-the-course-on-ocean-wind-power/

Tourism is the lifeblood of Maine. The excerpt below from "MAINE WIND ASSESSMENT 2012, A REPORT" dated 1/31/12 (six years ago) prepared for the Governor’s Office of Energy Independence and Security discusses wind development and tourism.

The passage below notes: (comments in bold are mine)

" we are aware of no…

Public Meeting on Energy Plan Update Postponed

For Immediate Release: Monday, January 8, 2019…

If you are a ratepayer who thinks you shouldn't have to pay for a University Research Project with a jacked-up electricity bill, your public  comments can be made part of this PUC case:
https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/Comments/CaseNumberSearch.aspx

case number 2010-00235