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The Green New Deal could make electricity 28 times more expensive
Added by Dan McKay on September 16, 2024 at 7:16am — No Comments
Hurricane Risk to Offshore Wind (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study still relevant)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 11, 2024
“Modern wind farms are reliable, safe, state-of-the-art power plants with well-tested technologies that meet approved standards and hundreds of thousands of hours of operating experience,” the U.S. Department of Energy states. Except when they fail under …
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on September 11, 2024 at 7:22am — No Comments
ISO-NE: New Mechanisms May be Needed to Ensure Future Grid Reliability
This is the truth that your government, media and so-called environmental groups won't tell you about the evil scheme to destroy our current, advanced energy structure based on energy density.
Transferring energy into battery storage is inefficient and drives up costs…
ContinueMore Unsustainable Than PURPA
The numbers straight from Central Maine Power to the Maine Public Utilities Commission shows how severe Net Energy Billing and Long-Term Contracts are to electricity prices. The numbers reveal that CMP continues to pay out and needs to recover, year after year, an increasing amount to comply with "Green Laws" that the lawmakers said would reduce electricity prices.
Added by Dan McKay on June 14, 2024 at 8:45am — 3 Comments
James LaBrecque: Politics and Energy
Unhappy with politicians, its simple to fix, just use a magic marker to fill in a little ink against the political insiders by voting for Mike
We don’t fix energy policy until we fix politics
- The CD2 contest is not a contest…
Added by Dan McKay on June 10, 2024 at 8:35am — No Comments
Adding Insult to Injury. TIME TO EXPEL DEMOCRATS FROM ELECTED OFFICE.
The Maine legislature was getting tired of inflicting painful rate increases on electric customers with Net Energy Billing which continues to expand so much that the utilities, Central Maine Power and Versant will be forced to raise rates for the next twenty or more years. This is a self-generating scam because each annual rate hike adds to payments gifted to solar developers, thus compounding annually. A program that was supposed to be examined once solar capacity reached 10% of the…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on June 8, 2024 at 8:33am — 4 Comments
The Numbers Are in and Maine Has One of The Highest Tax Burdens in the US ( and electricty rates too)
Jeff Parsons Published: May 31, 2024 Q97.9
As much as we love living in Maine, we still sometimes wonder each year when we get those tax bills, "Is this worth being in Maine?" Well for me it is, but Maine is not a cheap place to live thanks to what we pay in taxes compared to the rest of the country.
Every year, Wallet Hub ranks every state in the country based on the tax…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on June 1, 2024 at 7:33am — 3 Comments
If the transmission project can't comply with the rules, rig the rules. The Northern Maine Renewable Development Program story
Added by Dan McKay on May 30, 2024 at 10:30am — No Comments
ISO-NE 2023 Report on Electric Supply Market
Added by Dan McKay on May 29, 2024 at 9:54am — No Comments
New England Retail Electric Prices 2017 to 2023
Added by Dan McKay on May 23, 2024 at 10:10am — 2 Comments
The Third World of Maine is HERE!
- The costs attributed to the transition from reliable, fossil-fueled electricity to the green new deal are trending up at accelerating rates.
- RGGI costs are rising because the cap on allowable carbon dioxide emissions from power plants are scaled lower, annually. Most of the larger C02 producing plants have been driven out of service, leaving natural gas-fired plants as the majority source of C02. At this time and for the sake of future reliability, NG plants…
Back to Reality as Wind, Solar and Batteries Make All the Noise and Expensive Electricity
Monthly wholesale electricity prices and demand in New England, March 2024
Prices down in both day-ahead, real-time markets
Drivers of wholesale electricity prices
Power plant fuel
Fuel is typically one of the major input costs in producing electricity. Natural gas is the…
ContinueThe Death of Reliable Electricity, The Era of Energy Poverty
MAY 15, 2024
ISO-NE’s longer-term transmission planning changes give states new opportunities to develop policy-based transmission projects
ISO New England has proposed new planning processes to ensure future transmission upgrades address state clean energy policies holistically and efficiently.
On May 9, the …
ContinueWhales and Ratepayers Beware!
A gust of hope in Searsport with promise of new jobs, economic boost from wind port
Labor groups talk with residents, who’ve seen industries dry up and leave the midcoast, about opportunities in wind energy…
Added by Dan McKay on May 16, 2024 at 8:16am — No Comments
James LaBrecque Updates on Candidates Seeking to Replace Jared Golden
I’m sorry to everyone for being so behind in my distribution of radio shows over the last 6 months, it has been an extremely busy time for me.
I am on a very strict time line to get the first of a kind supermarket in the nation running by June 20th.
Attached is a little Bangor Daily News story in PDF about my technology.
Here is a video story about my technology and challenges our Flexware team needs to overcome.…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on May 16, 2024 at 7:46am — 3 Comments
"Our goal here is to get a project built as soon as we can."
Maine utility regulators are restarting the process of building renewable energy in northern Maine
Added by Dan McKay on May 15, 2024 at 9:27am — 4 Comments
The Most Fake Study and Report Ever
This study would have you believe that wholesale electric prices are higher than retail prices? The PUC must discredit this study before it hits the public with its…
ContinueAdded by Dan McKay on May 14, 2024 at 10:44am — 3 Comments
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION Request for Information for Renewable Energy Generation and Transmission Projects Pursuant to the Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development Program
Docket No. 2024-00099
May 10, 2024
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
Request for Information for Renewable
Energy Generation and Transmission
Projects Pursuant to the Northern Maine
Renewable Energy Development Program
(P.L. 2023 c. 660)
REQUEST FOR
INFORMATION AND
INDICATIONS OF INTEREST
SUMMARY
Through this Request for Information and Indications of Interest (RFI), the Maine
Public Utilities Commission…
Added by Dan McKay on May 11, 2024 at 7:01am — 3 Comments
Federal government seeking feedback ahead of Gulf of Maine offshore wind auction
Added by Dan McKay on May 1, 2024 at 8:26am — 2 Comments
Batteries and Solar Panels for Poor Main Towns, Who Does the Maintenance?
April 29, 2024
King Announces $2.5 Million to Strengthen Energy Resiliency for Communities Across Maine
The funding was secured by the Senator in the bipartisan FY2024 Congressionally-Directed Spending Appropriations Package
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Angus King, a member…
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- Hurricane Risk to Offshore Wind (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences study still relevant)
- ISO-NE: New Mechanisms May be Needed to Ensure Future Grid Reliability
- More Unsustainable Than PURPA
- James LaBrecque: Politics and Energy
- Adding Insult to Injury. TIME TO EXPEL DEMOCRATS FROM ELECTED OFFICE.
- The Numbers Are in and Maine Has One of The Highest Tax Burdens in the US ( and electricty rates too)
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Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********
(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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