• Around 2020, it was decided that electric utilities that owned both generation and distribution of electricity were harmful to customers, therefore a law was enacted to strip generator plant ownership from existing investor-owned utilities(Decoupling) and let generation plants compete against each other in an auction market to improve quality and reduce prices to purchasers of electricity.

• What the hell happened?

• Not only is the quality of…

GHRT REWIND 11 10 Jim LaBrecque CMS A 1430 | VOM (wvomfm.com)

GHRT REWIND 11 10 Jim LaBrecque CMS B 1345 | VOM (wvomfm.com)

• Maine policy changes that would reduce the cost of electricity to everyone in Maine

• 1. Instead of counting renewable energy as purchases from renewable plants throughout New England and New York, set up the criteria measuring renewable energy as renewable energy produced by Maine plants only. Such data displays Maine's contribution by Maine-made electrical production, which is currently at 80% + renewable and exceeding policy…

•   New England states that border Canada can easily obtain reasonably priced electricity.

•  New England States that border Canada can easily escape the energy behemoths that control the costs of electricity for all of New England.

• New England states that border Canada have all the resources available to be " Electric Independent"

• Fact is the New England states bordering Canada need neither wind and/or…

• Massachusetts Standard Offer for 2023 = 32 cents per kilowatt-hour. Total cost including delivery costs = 44 cents per kilowatt-hour

• New Hampshire Standard Offer for 2023 = 22 cents per kilowatt-hour. Total cost including delivery costs = 34 cents per kilowatt-hour…

King Pine Wind is a wind project of up to 1,000 MW and
is expected to consist of up to 179 5.6-MW turbines,
located northwest of Houlton in Aroostook and Penobscot
Counties (Facility).

"  . The Commission recognizes that obtaining access to land rights can present challenges, but the statute does not require a developer to have site control to submit a bid, nor does it set forth a preference for a proposal that demonstrates having such site control."

 "This Order does not address the myriad regulatory approvals and permits that a

Project of this…

• The PUC states: " the wind power Project is expected to provide a ratepayer benefit of $1.08 billion" The PUC explains this saving occurs "The projected ratepayer benefit was evaluated based on the cost of energy less the forecasted wholesale value of that energy."  Case Number 2021-00369  

• The PUC does not explain how they…

CMP is not permitted to turn customers’ power off between Nov. 15 and April 15 without express permission from the Public Utilities Commission.

Natural Gas Power Plants Begin Their Inevitable Decline

By Craig D. Idso -- November 1, 2022

"Because New England’s energy markets select the lowest-priced resources to produce the electricity needed to meet consumer demand, oil-fired generators were dispatched more frequently during stretches of cold weather this winter as global LNG prices and high firm natural gas demand made natural-gas-fired generators more expensive to run."

"New England power plants burned about 80 million gallons of oil from December through…

• How does a reliable electrical generation plant get a boost in value and consequently pass this value in increased prices to the ratepayer?
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  Putting all of the ghastly natural gas prices aside as they are a reflection of the worldwide solar and wind insurgency.
  
  But, in New England:

• In Connecticut, it is having the ratepayers paying a premium to their Millstone Nuclear Plant to keep it from closing down.
• In Massachusetts, it is…

The nation is scrambling for energy alternatives, including coal, due to a previous reliance on Russian oil