On August 13 Tony Buxton submitted a clump of data requests that has nearly every party objecting.

See https://mpuc-cms.maine.gov/CQM.Public.WebUI/Common/CaseMaster.aspx?CaseNumber=2024-00137

ISO-NE’s EPCET study highlights possibilities and challenges of the clean energy transition

Renewable-only build-outs may be vast. 

If the future resource build-out is almost entirely wind, solar, and batteries, the region will need to add roughly 18 times its current combined capacity of these resources to achieve…

Shuttered mines in Wyoming, Arizona, Texas, and Utah are reopening as federal legislation, new programs spur investment in the nuclear power supply line.

Epoch Times

August 20, 2024

Since the Senate unanimously passed the Prohibiting Russian Uranium Imports Act and President Joe Biden signed it into law in May, at least five shuttered uranium mines across four U.S. states have been reactivated in response to accelerating global demand for nuclear-powered…

Please consider taking five minutes for an email before August 29th if you'd rather see farmland than more of the hideous solar arrays which have sprouted up everywhere.

Public Hearing: Chapter 575: Solar on HVAL Rulemaking

Division / Program: Agriculture Resource Development

Date: August 19, 2024

Time: 9:00 AM

Location: 90 Blossom Lane, Deering Building, Room 101, Augusta, Maine OR…

State, feds finalize agreement for nation’s 1st floating offshore wind power research lease

The deal brings Maine one step closer to creating the nation's first floating wind facility, tentatively a 15-square-mile array that will include up to a dozen turbines floating nearly 30 miles southeast of Portland.

August 20, 2024

Daniel Kool

Press Herald…

As demand grows for solar projects, the Legislature directed that rules be drawn up to govern compensation paid by solar developers to boost farmland conservation.

August 20, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

EXCERPTS

If developers of solar and wind projects want to build on Maine farmland, they soon will have to pay an extra fee.

A state law enacted last year requires…

This is in NH but Maine would share in the cost.

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published August 16, 2024

Advocates for New England electric customers are raising alarm at the cost of a transmission line upgrade in New Hampshire.

Eversource Energy wants to replace more than 500 wooden poles with steel versions on a…

By John Basile Published August 8, 2024

Nantucket's Select Board got an update Wednesday night, Aug. 7, on the efforts to clean up debris from the failed Vineyard Wind turbine blade south of the island.

Roger Martella, the Chief Sustainability Officer for blade manufacturer GE Vernova, outlined the ongoing response to the mid-July incident that sent debris into the ocean about 15 miles south of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. That debris continues to wash up on local…

August 9, 2024

by Christopher Burns

The crash happened about 5:30 a.m. on Route 1, according to Shannon Moss, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety.

A video shared with the Bangor Daily News on Friday morning showed the tractor-trailer passing a home on Route 1, and in the distance a loud noise could be heard.

The crash caused the tractor-trailer to overturn, shutting down Route 1, Moss said…

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published August 7, 2024

New England’s electric grid operator issued a rare energy emergency last week when power generation unexpectedly dropped off during a heat wave.

ISO New England said it had to call in reserve power resources for a few hours on August 1 to meet surging electricity demand as the region sweltered in temperatures over 90 degrees.

The grid operator said that increased energy use in…

by Marie Weidmayer

August 6, 2024

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A $147 million grant announced Tuesday aims to help revitalize the Lincoln region that has struggled since the pulp mill closed in 2015.

The grant from the U.S. Department of Energy would turn the shuttered mill into the world’s largest long-term energy storage facility — basically a battery used to store electricity produced by clean energy. 

The multi-day energy storage facility is the first of its kind in…

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New Peer-Reviewed Study: CO2 Has Zero Impact on Climate Change

Solar industry sees first projects put on ice as nuclear proposal sows doubt among

investors

Nuclear…

The need to connect renewable power to the grid and plan for increased electrification is expanding the Public Utilities Commission's budget, staff and workload.

Posted 4:00 AM

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

Maine’s utility regulators have increased spending and are hiring more staff to keep up with an increasingly complicated workload reworking the state’s grid to deliver low-carbon power.

Two particularly thorny…

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Our View: It behooves us to pay for wind energy

While question marks over cost abound, one thing is clear: We need to make this investment.

The Editorial Board

Is Maine willing to pay up for the good of the environment? We should be.

As we…

Utilities are also directed to apply cost-saving technology that helps manage peak demand.

July 25, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

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Maine regulators on Thursday announced their priorities for utilities in a decade-long grid planning process, calling for greater investment in resilience against storms and leaning into technology to help rein in rising costs.

The Public Utilities Commission detailed what’s to be included in grid…

By Stone Washington

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) climate disclosure rule posts real problems for public companies. The SEC’s mission is to do facilitate capital formation and maintain market efficiency, but for the first time in its 90-year history, the SEC has injected political risk factors into its traditionally principles-based disclosure…

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published July 23, 2024 at 5:13 PM EDT

Maine regulators have approved new rules advocates said could offer a financial lifeline to Maine farms contaminated with toxic chemicals.

Under a measure authorized by the Maine Public Utilities Commission, the state will open a competitive bidding process to develop nearly 600,000 megawatts of new clean power, equal to 5% of Maine retail electricity sales in 2021.…

Exactly as predicted over 10 years ago on the CTFWP website.

"The turbines now being deployed onshore and offshore are failing far sooner than expected. Why? They have gotten too big. Yes, bigger wind turbines are more efficient than their smaller cousins. But the larger the turbine, the more its components get hit by the stresses that come with their size and weight."

Jul 22, 2024

On Saturday, the Nantucket…

By Seamus Othot

July 19, 2024

An offshore wind turbine project operated by Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners broke apart this week, scattering debris throughout Massachusetts’ coastal waters, with much of the flotsam washing up on Nantucket beaches.

Since the turbine experienced a catastrophic malfunction — for reasons that are not yet clear — social media has been inundated with pictures and videos of beachgoers and government employees picking up…