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Projects Will NOT Help Achieve Maine's Renewable Portfolio Standard Goals.
"MAINE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION SELECTS RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS IN SECOND COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT"
June 29, 2021
"Projects Will Help Achieve Maine's Renewable Portfolio Standard Goals"
Tom Saviello, "How's This For Ruining Maine "
Added by Dan McKay on June 27, 2021 at 7:33am — 26 Comments
State lawmakers draft plan to unlock northern Maine’s renewable potential
State lawmakers draft plan to unlock northern Maine’s renewable potential
Added by Dan McKay on April 30, 2021 at 9:28am — 10 Comments
IER Releases Update to Big Green, Inc. Database
Added by Dan McKay on April 9, 2021 at 5:01pm — 4 Comments
Governor Janet Mills To Carbon Tax Electricity
"Pricing carbon is the simplest, easiest, and most efficient way to ease this tension and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It could be implemented by state or federal policy, including through the existing Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative structure."
Added by Dan McKay on October 15, 2020 at 7:47am — 4 Comments
Sierra Club To Kill An Energy Market
COMMENTARY: The Sierra Club says states should leave the organized energy markets if their decisions and recent orders by federal regulators undermine efforts to encourage clean resources and hurt consumers. (Utility Dive)
Added by Dan McKay on May 6, 2020 at 6:09pm — 2 Comments
Greenbacker makes 15MW Maine gain
A subsidiary of Greenbacker Renewable Energy has bought the rights to build an over 15MW wind farm in the US state of Maine for an undisclosed price.
The 15.3MW RoxWind project has been developed by Palmer Management Corporation and other unnamed parties.
It is contracted to sell electricity through long-term off-take agreements with four local municipal utilities.
RoxWind is expected to come online in the third quarter of 2021.
Sheppard…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on March 18, 2020 at 10:16am — 5 Comments
Trends in Maine From Introduction of Wind Power
>Added nearly 1000 megawatts of wind 2007 - 2019
Wind Produced 2,450,000 megawatthours 2019…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on March 15, 2020 at 10:04am — 2 Comments
751 Megawatts Of Proposed Wind For Maine - ISO-NE Project Queue
As of March 10, 2020, ISO-NE shows 751 MW of proposed wind projects in Maine :
72.6 MW Hancock County " Weaver Wind " Has DEP Permit In Hand
15.3 MW Oxford County " RoxWind " Has DEP Permit In Hand
20 MW Penobscot County " Silver Maple-Pisgah MTN " Under DEP Review
126 MW Washington County " Downeast Wind " Preparing documents for DEP
517.5 MW Aroostook County " Number Nine " ?? No News Lately…
Added by Dan McKay on March 10, 2020 at 12:03pm — 3 Comments
Renewable Energy versus Reliable Energy.
The Conflict : Renewable Energy versus Reliable Energy.
The Resolution : States will unilaterally develop their own energy profiles and reject regional grid co-operation. We see it in the NECEC argument over providing Massachusetts power delivered through the Maine woods. We see it in Connecticut, whose ratepayers are paying premiums to keep a nuclear plant operating. We see it in the regional grid operator forcing all New England ratepayers to pay extra to a natural gas…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on February 21, 2020 at 9:01am — No Comments
Hans Ohanian: Carbon myopia in Montpelier
Hans Ohanian: Carbon myopia in Montpelier
Added by Dan McKay on February 8, 2020 at 8:37am — 4 Comments
U.S. Department of Energy Announces $64M for Components of Coal FIRST Power Plants
U.S. Department of Energy Announces $64M for Components of Coal FIRST Power Plants
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $64 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), Critical Components for Coal FIRST Power Plants of the Future.
“Coal is a critical resource for grid stability that will be used in…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on February 7, 2020 at 11:10am — 1 Comment
Big Green, Inc: The Bloomberg Family Foundation and the Future of American Energy
Added by Dan McKay on February 6, 2020 at 10:22am — 4 Comments
House Energy & Commerce Committee releases climate change-focused energy bill
On January 28, several majority members of the House Energy & Commerce Committee released a 622-page bill focused on addressing the impacts of climate change. Perhaps the most notable provision in the wide-ranging legislation is the goal…
Added by Dan McKay on January 31, 2020 at 9:55am — 7 Comments
Europe’s Electric Vehicle Charging Prices to Increase Substantially
Bait and switch : Rebates on heat pumps and immediately raise the price on electricity
Rebates on electric cars and immediately raise the price of electricity.
Europe’s Electric Vehicle Charging Prices to Increase Substantially…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on January 30, 2020 at 2:50pm — No Comments
LD 1634 An Act To Create the Maine Clean Energy Fund
LD 1634 An Act To Create the Maine Clean Energy Fund and To Authorize a General Fund Bond Issue To Capitalize the Fund
Sec. A-1. Authorization of bonds. The Treasurer of State is authorized, under the direction of the Governor, to issue bonds in the name and on behalf of the State in an amount not exceeding…
Added by Dan McKay on January 29, 2020 at 7:26pm — 3 Comments
Do Renewable Portfolio Standards Deliver?
Do Renewable Portfolio Standards Deliver?
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/do-renewable-portfolio-standards-deliver/
This working paper from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago finds that average retail electricity prices in states after the passage of a renewable energy mandate are 11 percent higher after seven years and 17 percent higher…
Added by Dan McKay on January 23, 2020 at 4:31pm — 2 Comments
Vermont allows for the use of HQ attributes for REC compliance
" Vermont allows for the use of HQ and NYPA attributes for REC compliance , which are not currently eligible in other states."
With Maine out of the picture of procuring RECs from the NECEC project because of it"s 100 megawatt limit, I wonder if Vermont would consider securing RECs from the project to reach it's 75% renewable standard by 2032 ?
Added by Dan McKay on January 12, 2020 at 2:04pm — 1 Comment
DEP APPROVES ROXWIND
The RoxWInd small-scale wind project was approved July 26, 2019. Interested parties have until August 2 to comment.
My Comments :
STATEMENT : "The Department finds that a formal deed restriction of the meadow buffers is not necessary since any future development on the buffer areas is very unlikely due to their adjacency to the wind turbines, "
RESPONSE : This appears to admit real estate sales are very much influenced negatively by proximity to wind…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on July 28, 2019 at 7:44am — 3 Comments
Maine Energy Laws Making Their Way To The Governor.
Added by Dan McKay on June 16, 2019 at 7:35am — 3 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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