New Hampshire Public Radio | By Mara Hoplamazian
Published January 30, 2023 at 4:56 PM EST
New England states have taken a new step in building out regional transmission infrastructure.
In two proposals to the U.S. Department of Energy, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont have requested federal support for projects to update and expand the region’s transmission…
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Please read these and other great articles at the link below.
The New RPS: RELIABLE Portfolio Standard
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Wind Turbines Have 50%± Shorter Life Expectancy Than…
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Start watching at the 26 minute and 30 second mark:
"We're begging foreign nations for oil when we have far more oil than they have, liquid gold, it's under our feet. We decide to stop drilling oil when it hits an all time high.....Think of it. It's supposed to be the opposite.
We're going wind. Let's kill all the birds...........We demand windmills be built on our oceans, our prairies and our mountains, only to realize they're killing all our birds at a…
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by Murray Carpenter, Maine Public
On a bright fall day, Maine Department of Transportation Commissioner Bruce Van Note is standing on a pile of rocks sticking out into Penobscot Bay.
“We’re at the end of the jetty on Sears Island as part of a process to figure out whether and where Maine can build a wind port to create clean renewable energy and fight climate change,” he says. ”So that’s what this is all about, that’s the big picture.”
Van Note is touring the…
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BY TUX TURKEL PRESS HERALD
New legislation would require the Public Utilities Commission to procure enough electricity from offshore wind farms to power 980,000 homes.
Proposed legislation unveiled Tuesday would call for the purchase of offshore wind-generated electricity in amounts that could supply every home in the state, and then some.
Wind turbines that would float in the Gulf of Maine are still in development and not yet a reality. But a…
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Bruce Mohl
Jan 16, 2023
IT’S BEEN 3 ½ YEARS since Massachusetts utilities negotiated a massive power purchase agreement with Hydro-Quebec, and the electricity still isn’t close to flowing because of repeated delays in building a transmission line from the Canadian border down through Maine.
Hydro-Quebec officials say they are ready to deliver the power as soon as the transmission line is completed, but an upcoming change in administration at the Quebec-owned company and…
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Maine Public | By Carol Bousquet
Published January 13, 2023 at 5:43 PM EST
Northern Maine Community College is getting more than $2 million in federal funding to start a new wind turbine safety program.
The training program will be the first of its kind in the…
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There are no words for the level of lying and concealment in the Maine and U.S. media on behalf of "green".
Ignorance has consequences. So please, talk to your friends. Silence is one of the bad guys' greatest allies.
Another jump in Maine electric prices in 2023 forces many into financial challenges - YouTube
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Wind to improve grid reliability when the damn stuff can't be stored at grid scale? Who was behind this kind of reporting? Troy Jackson up in Aroostook seems like he could be salivating. The issue now heads back to the Maine Public Utilities Commission. The wind developer, Longroad Energy, is in large part the old coterie of crony capitalists from First Wind. See:…
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Please read these and other important articles at the link below:
The U.S. Will Need Thousands of Wind Projects. Will Small Towns Go Along?
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Renewables (And Me) In The New Yorker
Wyoming and Kansas Report In: Wind Energy Collapsed During Cold Wave
'We are on the brink of DISASTER!' - power from…
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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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"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."
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