Despite billions in brainwashing.....................

"Fewer than half of people, however, said they have felt the effects of climate change or believe it will harm them personally."…

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published July 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM EDT

Electric grid operator ISO-New England is recommending the region select a $2.2 billion transmission line proposed by Central Maine Power to improve power flows in the region.

ISO-NE presented its "preliminary preferred solution" to a planning advisory committee Tuesday. The project is a response to a request for proposals issued by New England states as part of a regional long-term transmission…

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Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published July 27, 2026 at 7:12 AM EDT

The Maine Public Utilities Commission is changing the way it procures electricity for Maine's largest electric utilities in an effort to hedge against price spikes in volatile energy markets.

For years, the commission has taken one day late in the year to select an electricity supplier to provide annual "standard offer" fixed price power through a competitive bidding process.

But this…

July 24, 2026





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Les Otten of Bethel began his work on wood pellet heating after retiring as vice chairman of the Boston Red Sox in 2007.



While the media and many of us are immersed in Maine’s current political contests, we…

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published July 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM EDT

The Maine Department of Energy Resources is seeking regulators' approval for a major buildout of energy storage on the state's electric grid.

The department filed a petition with the Maine Public Utilities Commission this week to start competitive bidding to develop up to 360 megawatts of large-scale batteries.

Acting energy commissioner Celina Cunningham said that batteries can store…

What could possibly go wrong with that?

7/16/26

That satellite, called Eärendil-1 is targeted to fly later this year. And it could be the first of many: Reflect Orbital aims to operate 50,000 or more such mirror-craft in low Earth orbit by 2035, beaming reflected sunlight down to a variety of customers on the…

Troy Jackson files paperwork to explore replacing Graham Platner…

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published June 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM EDT

Energy giant Invenergy will abandon two of its offshore wind power projects in the Gulf of Maine as part of a $765 million deal with the Trump administration to invest in fossil fuel power plants instead.

Under the arrangement, Chicago-based Invenergy will give up offshore leases in California, New York and Massachusetts. The lease payments will instead be redirected to building natural gas…

By: Nancy Lavin - June 17, 2026

The Trump administration is running out of legal paths to block offshore wind development, after the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed its appeal seeking to overturn a Massachusetts federal judge’s ruling.

The…

The region’s growing demand for electricity combined with the dramatic improvement in nuclear technology makes it an idea worth exploring.

June 16, 2026

Leonard Rodberg

Leonard Rodberg holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT and is professor emeritus of urban studies at Queens College, City University of New York. He is author of the new report “Filling the Gap in New England’s Decarbonization Plans: A New View of the Electric Grid.”

Four of…

This, from the publication started by Naomi Schalit who wrote about wind early on.

Maine, working with 4 other New England states, is set to select winning projects soon in its latest effort to bring renewable energy development to Aroostook County.

By Delger Erdenesanaa

Published on: June 12,…

By Libby Palanza

June 5, 2026

Led by New York attorney general Letitia James, the complaint argues that the multi-million dollar deal between TotalEnergies and the Trump Administration “threatens to erase over a thousand union jobs and cheat millions of New Yorkers out of clean, affordable energy.”

Last March, the federal government…

Translation: "Let's give more money to the green energy shysters on Wall Street dummies".

A new analysis from two pro-clean energy groups suggests that publicly financing high-voltage power lines in New England could save electric…

By Tina Fischer

May 21, 2026

Central Maine Power opened a new switching station at the Rock Row development in Westbrook.

The compact gas-insulated switchgear facility serves to “link” multiple transmission lines together, to provide service continuity during extreme weather events.

Should one line be damaged in a storm, the facility’s smart technology can remotely “move” customers from one line to the other, providing a backup route for power to reach…

I thought the only concerns growing about climate change are those of the "green" shysters who are seeing their scams related to the scam of climate change being found out by an increasing number of people.

By Delger Erdenesanaa

Published on: May 15, 2026

....................As concerns about climate change have grown, many people, businesses and institutions are switching to technologies that run on electricity rather than on fossil…

By Libby Palanza

May 15, 2026

The Maine Office of the Public Advocate (OPA) has filed a complaint with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission against Eversource Energy Service Company, or Eversource, for allegedly “mischaracterizing” a major transmission line project.

The X-178…

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published May 13, 2026 at 3:55 PM EDT

The Maine Office of the Public Advocate has launched a legal challenge to block a 49-mile power line rebuilding project in New Hampshire.

The $360 million project called X-178 would replace 49 miles of transmission line and nearly 580 utility poles in western New Hampshire.

Maine Public Advocate Heather Sanborn said owner Eversource Energy Service Co. hasn't proven that the entire line…