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An attempt to screw up CMP, Emera and ISO-NE
Added by Dan McKay on January 27, 2017 at 6:04pm — 4 Comments
An Unconstitutional Bill
Added by Dan McKay on January 27, 2017 at 6:01pm — No Comments
More Government Intervention into Competitive Energy Markets
Added by Dan McKay on January 27, 2017 at 5:57pm — No Comments
Number Nine Wind Farm LLC Application To DEP Withdrawn
Site Law Development Projects of Interest
Number Nine Wind Farm
Number Nine Wind Farm, LLC proposes to construct a 119 turbine utility scale wind energy facility with an installed capacity of 250 megawatts in Aroostook County. The turbines are primarily located in T10 R3 WELS; E Township; T9 R3 WELS; T8 R3 WELS; and Saint Croix Township. The applicant is proposing 4 permanent and 4 temporary meteorogical towers, a collector substation in T9 R3 WELS; an Operations and…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on December 2, 2016 at 9:06am — 7 Comments
Maine, with it's hidden taxes on the same path as Ontario
Added by Dan McKay on September 14, 2016 at 7:34am — 3 Comments
Wind Ouput and coresponding Real Time Prices 8/14/2016 ISO-NE Charts
Added by Dan McKay on August 14, 2016 at 8:31am — 3 Comments
A Correlation of Wholesale Prices and Wind Output ?
Added by Dan McKay on July 24, 2016 at 8:42am — 11 Comments
Comment Alert
Hello-
Given your past involvement in wind energy issues in Maine, I wanted to ensure that you have seen the pre-rulemaking draft of new rules related to wind energy development in Maine that DEP has just released. You can find the link to the draft rules on our website at:
http://www.maine.gov/dep/comment/comment.html?id=696084
Please note that comments are…
ContinueAn Odd ISO-NE Market Event
Can anyone explain why a rapid drop in wind power output into the ISO-NE real time market coincides with a rapid drop in prices( often going negative) ? It is usually followed by a rebound in output and prices. This has been occurring almost everyday lately during the early morning hours.
ISO-NE Market Watchers: Please Explain This Scenario
Should a wind project owner enter into a good faith sales contract for it's output by power purchase agreement with another entity and also be able to set a negative price into the wholesale real-time market ? Isn't the power purchaser compelled to pay the wind project owner by terms of the PPA and also pay the market in this circumstance ?
Added by Dan McKay on July 4, 2016 at 5:27pm — 5 Comments
Something Is Illegal With Maine's Renewable Pricing Methodlogy
If Maine had a real Attorney General, she would challenge the legality of the Alternative Compliance Payment rules in the Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards of Maine. The ACP is the cap price applied to electricity costs associated with the development of renewable forms of electrical production.
Added by Dan McKay on May 8, 2016 at 7:44am — No Comments
Where is Janet Mills on SunEdison ?
Added by Dan McKay on May 4, 2016 at 12:08pm — 2 Comments
Intermittent Power Versus Baseload Power
As you read the following statement from an ISO-NE official, think about how wind gets it's revenues.
Added by Dan McKay on April 2, 2016 at 10:20am — No Comments
When the TV screen goes black, who are you going to call
Maine has plenty of hydro and biomass resources to comply with our own state renewable portfolio requirements for now and the foreseeable future. Maine has a problem with an onslaught of the variable resource wind plants replacing base load outputs. Removing the 100 megawatt limit on hydro resources would be meaningless to this wind onslaught as long as Southern New England continues to make large hydro ineligible for their renewable standards. Their current…
ContinueRun, don't walk away from SunEdison.
Run, don't walk away from SunEdison. If you need more convincing check out the following three reasons why you shouldn't touch SUNE right now.
Read more: http://bit.ly/22tEer0#ixzz43evAinAs
Added by Dan McKay on March 22, 2016 at 2:50pm — 3 Comments
An Energy Expert Sums Up The Scale up Of Wind
Added by Dan McKay on March 14, 2016 at 11:16am — 3 Comments
Energy Density
Biomass plants operating in Maine are in trouble, at least that is what was heard by the EUT committee in Augusta yesterday.
Added by Dan McKay on February 24, 2016 at 9:48am — 2 Comments
As the Wind Blows, the Jobs Go
What to do with 613 megawatts of wind energy when the load demand within Maine is between 1000 to 1400 megawatts at any given time ?
Added by Dan McKay on January 20, 2016 at 9:46am — 7 Comments
NO DEAL IS BETTER THAN A BAD DEAL
The recent decision of the Maine PUC to re-examine two long term offers from proposed wind plants was vehemently opposed by Commissioner Littell.
Future Transmission Upgrades For Wind Will Need PUC Approval
"Integrating Intermittent Renewable Resources. A number of wind projects have interconnected to electrically remote and weak portions of the regional power system, and additional wind projects are proposed for these areas. These facilities pose operational and planning challenges due to issues with voltage and stability…
Added by Dan McKay on March 26, 2015 at 9:21am — 8 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
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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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