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The Many Shades of Green
Added by Dan McKay on April 10, 2022 at 10:33am — 8 Comments
ISO-NE, HELL-BENT TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS:
Added by Dan McKay on April 3, 2022 at 7:03am — 8 Comments
Does your legislator know these facts?
ISO-NE has an Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) which means as the grid operator it has to allow any and all types of resource generation to feed into the New England Grid, even if it is intermittent, dilute, garbage generation, etc. If there is room on the transmission system, every form of electricity is allowed.
Added by Dan McKay on March 26, 2022 at 9:44am — 5 Comments
Biden Promises Shipments of Natural Gas to Europe. Next Winter Looks Bad For New England Power
Added by Dan McKay on March 25, 2022 at 3:36pm — 2 Comments
CONNECTIONS, CONNECTIONS, CONNECTIONS
A question asked about the Northern Maine, Troy Jackson proposal to build wind projects in the County and have the costs applied to Maine electric bills
Craig…
Added by Dan McKay on December 24, 2021 at 8:57am — 6 Comments
The climate change cabal has succeeded in raising the price of electricity to an amount that enables wind and solar projects to claim that they can save electric costs.
The climate change cabal has succeeded in raising the price of electricity to an amount that enables wind and solar projects to claim that they can save electric costs.
Added by Dan McKay on December 15, 2021 at 6:13am — 4 Comments
With The Rejection of NECEC, Maine Could Be the Black Sheep of the Regional New England Electric Network.
With the rejection of NECEC, Maine could become the black sheep of the regional New England electric network.
Added by Dan McKay on December 11, 2021 at 7:35am — 6 Comments
Renewable Portfolio Resource Breakdown For N.H. & VT.
According to the Maine PUC, the renewable portfolio standard in 2019 was satisfied as follows:
Added by Dan McKay on December 10, 2021 at 7:50pm — 2 Comments
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
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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
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(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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