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Private Equity Investors Destroying Maine Businesses and Institutions

As of early 2026, several national retail chains with a presence in Maine are undergoing restructuring, bankruptcy, or sales to private equity firms, resulting in significant store closures across the state. The retail landscape in Maine is currently facing a wave of closures affecting discount stores, craft shops, and restaurants, driven by financial pressures, high operating costs, and leveraged buyouts.…
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Added by Dan McKay on January 20, 2026 at 6:35am — 1 Comment

Reagan Paul Fighting the Democrats on Behalf of the Beleaguered Maine Electric Customers

OP-ED: Maine’s New Energy Authority Is a Blank Check With Your Name on It

Maine lawmakers are now considering LD 838 titled “An Act to Establish the Maine Clean Energy Authority,” a bill sponsored by Senator Mark Lawrence and co-sponsored by every Democrat member of the Energy, Utilities, and Technology Committee. Although the bill was originally introduced as a concept draft (commonly used as a bait-and-switch tactic within the…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 20, 2026 at 6:11am — 1 Comment

ISO-NE: a Collective of Kowtowing Puppets Disguised as Engineers

Why is ISO-NE promoting wind power by building an expensive (a billion dollars) transmission line upgrade completely dedicated to bringing an unpredictable, part time amount of non-baseload, and non-dispatchable, generation into the grid from the most northern area of New England?  Where are the levelheaded engineers that were promised with the formation of this Regional Transmission Organization in 1996? …
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Added by Dan McKay on January 19, 2026 at 2:04pm — No Comments

ISO-NE: Aroostook Wind Fails Test and Proposed Transmission Project Should Be Removed from Consideration

ISO-NE Evaluating Aroostook County Wind

Note the circled item " Transfer Analysis and Accommodating Wind"

Also, see the note under the diagram.…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 19, 2026 at 7:10am — 2 Comments

Is Maine the Last to Stop the Madness of Global Warming?

Global Coal Demand to Reach a New Record High this Year

January 15,…
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Added by Dan McKay on January 17, 2026 at 10:53am — No Comments

As the Warming Scare Dissipates, Rationality Returns to Australia

By Vijay Jayaraj January 2, 2026…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 17, 2026 at 7:11am — 2 Comments

Pick your Poison, but Wind, Solar and Batteries are Most Toxic

ISO-New England: Electrocute Everything

Go Pats and three alternatives to the chair…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 17, 2026 at 6:30am — No Comments

Trump Administration Calls for Emergency Power Auction to Build Big Power Plants Again

Press Release
For Immediate Release

January 16, 2026



Contact: doenews@hq.doe.gov
 

Trump Administration Calls for Emergency Power Auction to Build Big Power Plants…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 16, 2026 at 1:52pm — No Comments

President Trump- You Let This Wind Project Slip by You

Greenvolt Power and Bedrock Renewables Acquire Twin Energy Wind Project in Maine

  • Greenvolt Power, part of the global Greenvolt Group, and Bedrock Renewables acquire Twin Energy, an 18.3-MW wind project in Oxford County, Maine.
  • Expected to power approximately 7,850 homes annually and support Maine’s carbon-neutrality goals.
  • Project under construction, with operations planned by the end of…
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Added by Dan McKay on January 10, 2026 at 8:50am — 1 Comment

There is No Choice When Democrats Make Sneaky Electricity Laws

AUTOMATIC ENROLLMENT!!!!!

LD 2112         An Act to Authorize Municipalities to Form Community Choice Aggregation Programs to Procure Electricity

Presented by Representative RUNTE of York.

Cosponsored by Representative: SACHS of Freeport, Senator: LAWRENCE of York.

Public Hearing  Thursday  January 22,2026 1:00 pm Cross Building Room 211

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Added by Dan McKay on January 10, 2026 at 8:13am — No Comments

New England electric customers would be better served if the 8% of new NECEC generation replaced the 7% of wind and solar generation.

Very soon, a brand new source of power will be entering the New England electricity network at a substation in Lewiston Maine. Not that the technology is new. It will be an old tried and true method of generating electricity, hydroelectric power. But, unique to this new power is the fact it will deliver power 24/7/365, a magnificently needed baseload power that New England needs.…
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Added by Dan McKay on January 9, 2026 at 9:07am — No Comments

Does Anyone Need an Energy Coach? DOER Needs People Willing to Steal.

"Regulatory Capture" While the weak will be willing to shove fellow ratepayer's money into their pockets, the better individuals, will soon get sick of this "theft by fraud" 

"Energy coaches typically provide information and one-on-one assistance to help people understand, apply for, and receive incentives for home energy upgrades and energy bill assistance."…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 7, 2026 at 10:25am — 3 Comments

Is the Maine PUC Covering Up for Renewables Effect on the Standard Offer Price Increase?

Why does the Maine PUC keep telling people that Standard Offer costs are solely tied to natural gas costs?
 
Here the PUC tells Legislators on the EUT Committee that a new program initiated by ISO-NE will increase Standard Offer Prices:
"Suppliers indicated that certain ISO-NE…
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Added by Dan McKay on January 5, 2026 at 10:12am — 2 Comments

Climate Change, Whatever That Is, Is Socialism at Work.

When it comes to gambling, it depends on where the money comes from. If someone wants to gamble with the income they have earned, it is their choice and may the luck be with them. If, on the other hand, you are a Somalian cashing in snap benefits to buy lottery tickets, that is taxpayer money they are playing with.
 
But if the…
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Added by Dan McKay on January 5, 2026 at 7:58am — 2 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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