Last Year’s New England Winter Was Brutal on the Energy Grid. Get Ready for Worse.

Posted to Energy October 17, 2018 by Michael Graham

The New England region will be the hardest hit—right in the wallet– due to the region’s disproportionate reliance on home heating oil. The EIA anticipates that propane prices will remain flat, electricity costs will rise 3 percent and natural…

By Sherri Lange -- October 17, 2018

“The wind industry has denied and ignored evidence directly linking wind turbines and sleep disruption leading to negative human and animal impacts worldwide. Expect WHO’s new Guidelines to give rise to new standards to mitigate if not eliminate this ongoing suffering.”

“The burden of environmental noise with wind turbines is not episodic or random: for the most part its effects are constant and unrelenting…. This is an…

Public Witness Hearing

October 17, 2018

Docket #: 2017-00232

Location: Worster Room, 101 Second St, Hallowell, ME

5:00 PM

The video is archived at the PUC site at the following link:…

In this PPH article, the questions and what is left out of the candidates' answers are arguably as important as the answers.

"With the gubernatorial election coming up on Nov. 6, we wanted to know more about the environmental stances of the four candidates."…

A group of New Hampshire legislators and renewable energy advocates issued their response Thursday to the governor’s 10-year energy strategy.

The volunteer coalition wrote plans for how the state can rapidly shrink its carbon footprint—and people’s bills—by investing in energy efficiency, renewable energy and new technologies.

They call it a roadmap to their goal of using renewable power for all of New Hampshire’s electricity by 2040.

State Rep. Lee Oxenham,…

Click on the link below, turn up your speakers and listen to Jim LaBrecque discuss the status of the Governor's Wind Commission.

https://www.wvomfm.com/episode/ghrt-rewind-10-10-jim-labrecque-2/

I just listened quickly, so I'm sure I'm not capturing every key point I heard, but with that caveat, here are some highlights:

- The commission is doing its work and contrary…

D.E. Shaw, which got its start via a $28 million stake from former Maine Today Media owner S. Donald Sussman strikes again.

Orsted, the Danish company that is the world’s largest offshore wind developer, has agreed to pay $510 million to buy Rhode Island-based Deepwater Wind, the company that two years ago built the first offshore wind farm in the United States, a five-turbine array near Block Island.…

The Maine Public Utilities Commission will hold the last of three hearings to let the public comment on Central Maine Power Co.’s proposed hydropower project.

The meeting will be held Wednesday, Oct. 17, at the PUC’s office in Hallowell at 5 p.m.

It follows two other public witness hearings on Sept. 14, one in…

Since the Sierra Club is a propagandist for wind, perhaps this appointment augurs well for the fight against destroying Maine with useless wind.

DOE’s McNamee Nominated As FERC Commissioner

Tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese imports, as well as on metals from Europe and elsewhere, could raise the cost of wind power in the U.S. by as much as 10 percent, Tom Kiernan, chief executive officer of the American Wind Energy Association, said at a conference in New York. Executives from three of the world’s top turbine manufacturers agreed.................................

With federal tax credits for wind power winding down, strong growth is expected in 2019 and 2020 as…

Ramping up wind power in America would also dial up the nation’s temperatures, a new study out of Harvard found.

While wind energy is widely celebrated as environmentally friendly, the researchers concluded that a dramatic, all-out expansion in the number of turbines could warm the country even more than climate change from burning coal and other fossil fuels, because of the way the spinning blades disturb the layers of warm and cold air in the atmosphere.…

A state office also identifies the 15 members of the commission, which is examining the permitting system and the impact of turbines on tourism.

The 15-member commission includes three members of his administration and several noted critics of wind power, as well as a representative of the tourism industry and the state Public Utilities Commission. One individual has a background in renewable energy but there are no representatives of the wind power industry in…

A dramatic political shift against wind energy in Vermont threatens to derail the last remaining wind project under development in the state....................................................

“It is interesting and also disturbing that Vermont has had this arc of success in developing wind and then having it come circling back to the difficulty it is having now, especially when you realize that America’s first large-scale grid connected wind turbine was installed here at Grandpa’s…

Some of the more important articles in this issue are:

Green Folly

Large NY Wind Project seeking major property tax reduction

China to speed up ending wind and solar subsidies

Investigation Concludes: Turbine Noise ‘Detrimental and Unreasonable’

US Courts Ordering Wind Developers to Buy Out Noise-Affected Neighbors

Dr. Mariana Alves-Pereira explains vibroacoustic disease

Disposal of Wind Turbines Proving to be…

The five-turbine Block Island Wind Farm to the island had become exposed in shallow water. In remarks to that newspaper, Jeffrey Grybowski, Deepwater Wind’s chief executive officer, cited “more sand movement than had been anticipated.”

The beach “is already prone to erosion” and “will be forever altered by a for-profit (hedge fund-owned) company,” it adds. The D.E. Shaw group, an investment and technology development firm, is Deepwater Wind’s principal…

Boston's Longroad Energy Partners is of course run by Michael Alvarez and Paul Gaynor, onetime executive management of First Wind, the highly connected Maine centered wind developer which died in the Sun Edison bankruptcy. First Wind alone could fill up lifetimes of study for parasitologists.

This article in the Press Herald, with a headline of "Portland hub monitors 425 solar projects, six wind farms" is but one example of Alvarez, Gaynor et al's resurfacing in Maine. We thought we…

Paul Gaynor, Michael Alvarez and friends looking to build 600' tall subsidy meters.

Revived Weaver Wind project back on the radar

As for the birds, MDIFW “still has concerns” that Longroad is working to mitigate, said Brooke Barnes, an environmental consultant working with Longroad.…

Rep. Berry uses the word "wind" three times in his piece. Each time he prefaces it with the word "offshore", implying he is looking out for just the offshore wind industry. But don't be fooled -virtually all the wind turbines built to date in Maine have been on land. Berry is simply protecting his friends in the wind industry - irrespective of where they might get away with placing their next set of ratepayer robbing "subsidy meters".

Rep. Berry: CMP power line…

Energy Pathway for Maine advocates for clean-energy technologies in advance of November elections.

From the "economist" Jeremy Payne

“Maine has hundreds of renewable energy jobs today – from installers and operators to construction contractors, environmental specialists, and other professionals,” said Jeremy Payne, executive director of the Maine Renewable Energy Association. “Growth in this sector will…