Saturday, Aug 24, 2024 - 03:10 PM

Authored by Mike Shedlock

It currently costs NY about $36 per MWH for energy. But the state demanded wind. Let’s discuss the amazing bottom line results.

New York state signed a contract in June to buy electricity generated by two large wind farms, Empire Wind 1 and Sunrise Wind, off the coast of Long Island. The projects are expected to begin in 2026 and 2027, with power delivered to Brooklyn (Empire)…

Energy and agricultural officials, developers and others met in Freeport to begin looking at how Maine can establish small wind projects, comparable to rooftop solar panels.

August 24, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

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Maine is taking a first step to establish small-scale wind power as another tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Distributed…

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

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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…