Long Islander's Blog – July 2024 Archive (12)

Maine regulators direct utilities to make power grid more resilient against storms - $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

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…

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Added by Long Islander on July 26, 2024 at 8:00am — 1 Comment

The SEC’s Climate Disclosure Rule Is a Dark Cloud Over Energy Abundance

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…

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Added by Long Islander on July 24, 2024 at 2:23pm — 1 Comment

Maine PUC approves siting renewable power on contaminated farms

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.…

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Added by Long Islander on July 24, 2024 at 8:57am — 2 Comments

Robert Bryce - Disintegrating blades only the tip of Big Wind’s problems.

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…

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Added by Long Islander on July 23, 2024 at 8:04am — No Comments

CMP Parent Company’s Offshore Wind Turbine Creates Environmental Disaster Off New England Coast

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…

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Added by Long Islander on July 22, 2024 at 9:42am — 2 Comments

Community solar is booming in Maine, but who owns the projects?

By Murray Carpenter

July 21, 2024



A Maine Monitor analysis finds developers have bundled projects, then sold them to some of the world’s largest corporations and investment firms.

Maine’s community solar program, commonly known as net energy billing, has been wildly successful in incentivizing the…

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Added by Long Islander on July 22, 2024 at 9:34am — 2 Comments

American Auto Giant Pivots Plans to Build Electric Vehicles at Major Plant to Produce Heavy-Duty Pickups Instead

Nick Pope

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Ford is reversing course on plans to manufacture electric vehicles (EVs) at a major plant and instead will produce gas-powered, heavy-duty pickup trucks at the facility, Reuters reported Thursday.

The company initially planned to build three-row electric SUVs at its facility in Oakville, Canada, between 2025 and 2027, but the plant will now add capacity to produce 100,000…

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Added by Long Islander on July 18, 2024 at 1:38pm — No Comments

Workforce agencies plan to train 300 Maine clean energy workers

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published July 15, 2024

A new program from southern Maine workforce development agencies plans to train hundreds of new workers for the clean energy industry.

Green Jobs for ME is managed by the Coastal Counties Workforce Inc. and operated by Goodwill Northern New England. It is funded with a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Labor.…

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Added by Long Islander on July 17, 2024 at 12:08pm — 2 Comments

Pilot program will pay Maine’s big forest owners to increase carbon storage

The New England Forestry Foundation is about to conduct a carbon experiment in the Maine woods.

The Massachusetts-based nonprofit is dipping into a $30 million U.S. Department of Agriculture climate grant to develop an incentive program to pay commercial forest owners to adopt planting and harvesting methods that increase carbon storage and climate resiliency.

The six first-round enrollees, all from Maine, will test out so-called “climate-smart” forestry practices on…

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Added by Long Islander on July 11, 2024 at 11:11am — 3 Comments

Defiling Maine: Wind turbine parts are now being trucked through Hancock County

July 8, 2024

by Bill Trotter

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For the Down East wind project, the turbine sections are being trucked from the terminal via Trundy Road in Searsport to Route 1 and then east through Bucksport to Ellsworth, according to Merrill.

In Ellsworth, the shipments will roll through downtown on Main Street and then onto Washington Junction Road, steering clear of the busy High Street corridor. The trucks will turn back onto Route 1 in Hancock and will…

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Added by Long Islander on July 8, 2024 at 1:39pm — 3 Comments

Maine to study whether creating local electric grid operator could cut costs, improve reliability

July 8, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

The first-in-the-nation proposal could shift control over some aspects of Maine's power system from the nonprofit that oversees transmission lines and power plants across New England.

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Maine officials are imagining an electric grid of the future nimble enough to communicate with buildings to cut energy use, provide power to electric vehicles…

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Added by Long Islander on July 8, 2024 at 1:32pm — 2 Comments

Construction proceeds on NECEC power corridor through western Maine

About 41% of foundations for the setting of poles on the NECEC corridor have been completed, 31% of poles have been set and 34% of circuit wires are done, the developer said.



July 3, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

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The developer of a controversial 145-mile electricity transmission line through western Maine has told state regulators it’s making progress after resuming work last October, but projects such as setting foundations…

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Added by Long Islander on July 4, 2024 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments

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CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

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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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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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