It’s been a big year for nuclear energy in the U.S. The Department of Energy has allocated a large amount of capital to nuclear energy research and has committed …
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Wind, Solar, Batteries: The High Cost of Duplicative Energy - Master Resource
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[Note: Steve Everley is a Sr. Managing Director at FTI Consulting, and a longtime friend. He published this excellent commentary on LinkedIn, and I thought it deserves highlighting here.]…
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It’s been a big year for nuclear energy in the U.S. The Department of Energy has allocated a large amount of capital to nuclear energy research and has committed …
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This graph below displays the wholesale prices of electricity per hour in the ISO-NE market for today. 02-06-2025
Due to the present cold snap occurring, hourly prices are peaking in the morning hour between 7 and 8 am. People are turning up the thermostats as they awake, and the market is responding to the steep ramp up of load. No help from solar, wind generation is ramping down. Natural gas-fired generation plants are yielding to natural…
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ISO-NE calculates the following annual buildout of wind, solar and batteries in the New England States (see chart below) will be necessary to achieve goals established by the States.
Maine lawmakers seem to be determined to provide all the buildout for all of New England.
EPCET’s Policy Scenario models the annual additions of zero-carbon resources necessary to achieve New England state policy goals by 2050. Results show that the New England…
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ContinueBy Robert Bradley Jr. -- February 4, 2025 https://www.masterresource.org/
“The energy and climate dialog is fraught with so many challenges. Let’s not compound the problem by using destructively deceptive terms like climate crisis, energy transition, carbon pollution, clean energy, and dirty energy. These terms are nonsense. Let’s just…
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Blue states spent the last four years one-upping each other with bigger and bigger plans to build offshore wind farms that could power the nation…
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"The profitability of wind and solar units in the region is intricately linked with state policies, with both resource types generally relying on additional revenue streams to those in the wholesale markets to be economically viable."
"Between 2021 and 2023, the solar unit would have earned 80% to 90% of its revenues from the sale of renewable energy credits; similarly, 30% to 50% of the wind unit’s revenue would have been attributable…
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From behind the wheel of a pickup truck, Trevor White points out several landmarks in Indian Township, one of two Passamaquoddy reservations in…
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Supply Rates reflect a State's Renewable Energy Policies. More Policies, Higher Rates.
Can you guess which New England State is foregoing ridiculous renewable energy policies?…
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REC purchases are the method used by Electricity Suppliers (includes the Standard Offer Supplier) to comply with Maine Policy Renewable Standards. The suppliers must buy RECs at an annual growing percentage of supply. For 2025, the percentage must be 61%
The chart below shows the change in the average cost of RECs paid by suppliers correspondingly attached to the supply portion cost of electric bills.
This chart…
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U.S. Sen Angus King
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
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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 - 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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