Versant Power opposes a shift to whole-house electric heat pumps from those used in one or 2 rooms, saying affluent homeowners and developers will benefit.

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

April 24, 2024

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Versant Power is pushing back against a new approach to broaden the use of heat pumps, which already are a key part of Maine’s toolbox to cut greenhouse gas…

by Bruce Mohl, April 20, 2024, commonwealthbeacon.org

I would add to this article:

- Pros of wind power (basically none); Cons of wind power (many)

- The virtually complete lack of grid scaled battery systems and how long they would sustain a suicidal electricity system built on intermittent wind and solar (now and in the future)

- The stresses these same fools are planning for us on top of wind and solar "reliance", namely "electrification" and EV's

- The aside that most people do not want EV's beyond the small…

April 17, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

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A dozen House members reversed themselves from an April 9 vote that rejected changes in environmental rules, in order to allow an offshore wind terminal to be built.

The Maine House of Representatives on Wednesday backed legislation exempting sand dunes on Sears Island from environmental rules to authorize the state to grant a permit to…

When someone uses the word "planet" in a sentence, is it because they watched too much Star Trek or too much Al Gore?

"The petition delivered by a member of the Maine Labor Climate Council was signed by over 100 residents voicing support for wind power."…

April 15, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

The House rejected the measure last week and will now reconsider the Senate version, which would exempt sand dunes from environmental protection in a bid to advance Maine's drive to generate offshore wind.

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The Maine Senate on Monday night approved legislation providing a carve-out in environmental regulations that would allow construction of an…

By Steve Robinson

August 2, 2023

Several of Maine’s largest newspapers – formerly owned by Masthead Media Company – will now fall under the ownership of a nonprofit trust funded by left-wing billionaires George Soros, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, and a collection of like-minded progressives foundations and nonprofits.

The Portland Press Herald and its related daily papers were sold to the National Trust for Local News several months after former owner Reade Brower…

April 14, 2024

Our View: Perfection is the enemy of our environment

The scuffle over permission for a wind energy facility on Sears Island offers a template for how not to take on climate change.

The Editorial Board

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The defeat by the Maine House of Representatives of a bill designed to pave the way for a significant offshore wind energy…

April 9, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

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........The program, which is funded by a $679,921 grant from the Maine Department of Labor, supported by the Maine Governor’s Office, and offered in partnership with Portland Adult Education, connects immigrants, refugees and other “new Mainers” with classroom instruction on safety involving vehicles, ladders and electrical hazards.............

...............ReVision Energy, Portland…

April 10, 2024

Introducing GreenBiz's 2024 Climate Policy Heroes

The inaugural list of changemakers making tangible impacts on climate policy.

Hannah Pingree, developing Maine’s offshore wind power

Director of the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation & the Future, Pingree served as majority leader and then speaker of the House in the state…

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

April 9, 2024

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The state House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected legislation that would have authorized the state to build an offshore wind terminal on Sears Island, an initial step in Maine’s foray into the wind energy industry.

In a blow to Gov. Janet Mills, who …

How much real information about renewable energy are the kids taught?

Maine teens compete to create turbines that produces the most wind power…

By Seamus Othot

April 1, 2024

Despite the benefits of nuclear power, and despite Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ oft-repeated goal of getting Maine to 100 percent renewable energy, the Mills Administration and the Democrat-controlled legislature have shunned nuclear power.

Maine’s only nuclear power plant, the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, was shuttered after several attempts to ban nuclear power from the state via ballot initiative. At the time, the needed upgrades…

The utility is asking the Maine Public Utilities Commission for permission to bill ratepayers $116 million for subsidies paid to solar developers in the net energy billing program that is part of Maine's effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

March 29, 2024

Stephen Singer

Press Herald

Central Maine Power asked state regulators on Friday for permission to bill ratepayers $116 million for subsidies to companies that develop solar power, a steadily…

People the world over have rejected EV's and the Maine legislature still has its head in the sand. See passage below highlighted in bold. Wind and transmission pusher Troy Jackson knows the public doesn't want EV's and knows that the public's reasoning goes far, far beyond lack of charging stations. However, if subterfuge artists are allowed to legislatively ordain that Maine be carpeted with charging stations, their argument for EV's will then take on "But, but, but, we spent all this money…

Every candidate for elected office in Maine must be grilled as to whether they would vote for ANY mandate for these almost universally despised EV's. To put in simply, enough already.…

March 18, 2024

by Billy Kobin

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.................2009: “This is among my highest priorities,” U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, said at the time. “It is a win-win for the state of Maine in terms of producing new jobs for the state and having the state lead the way in reducing our dependence on foreign oil.”.............................

For all the bipartisan praise more than a decade ago, offshore wind has become an…

Maine Public | By Nicole Ogrysko

Published March 15, 2024 at 11:04 AM EDT

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has finalized an area in the Gulf of Maine where a commercial offshore wind farm could be developed.

The area covers 2 million acres offshore from Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, ranging anywhere from 23 to 92 miles off the coast, BOEM said Friday.

The final area represents an 80% reduction from the section that…

March 14, 2024

Though windmills and solar panels get the headlines, the big energy topic in Washington is electric transmission. Whether it is Congress’s newfound interest in permitting reform, the U.S. Department of Energy’s new Grid Deployment Office, or the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) upcoming final rule on transmission planning and cost allocation, how to build and pay for long-range transmission to connect generators to customers is considered the final…