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Do You Know What is Really Disgusting About Wind and Solar Developments?

What is truly disgusting is during this week's long cold spell, wind and solar developments can bid into the New England wholesale electricity supply market at low or zero prices because of taxpayer and ratepayer subsidies granted by the government  and then receive the price normally set by dispatchable natural gas fueled generators. During this cold spell wholesale prices have exceeded $100 per megawatt hour for every…
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Added by Dan McKay on February 11, 2025 at 9:03am — No Comments

Nuclear Power gets a public hearing in the EUT Committee Room

February 13, 2025
9:00 am Public Hearing…
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Added by Dan McKay on February 11, 2025 at 7:42am — No Comments

Do No Harm. Cleanse the Grid of Wind, Solar and Batteries with the New Nuclear Deal

Wind, Solar, Batteries: The High Cost of Duplicative Energy - Master Resource

Wind, Solar, Batteries: The High Cost of Duplicative Energy

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Added by Dan McKay on February 10, 2025 at 6:08am — 1 Comment

American leadership in nuclear power is not just about energy security; it's also national security.

[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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Added by Dan McKay on February 9, 2025 at 7:54am — 1 Comment

Small Modular Reactor (SMR)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia…
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Added by Dan McKay on February 8, 2025 at 8:20am — No Comments

REAL CLEAR ENERGY: The Small Modular Reactor Revolution Is Arriving Soon

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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Added by Dan McKay on February 8, 2025 at 8:05am — 1 Comment

DASI: When You Need to Correct for Wind and Solar Energy Failures

ISO-NE loves using acronyms for new rules they adopt. Meet DASI, (Day-Ahead Ancillary Services Initiative), which is basically a paid service that " adequately compensates resources for providing reserve products, and incentivizes investment in flexible resources that will be increasingly important for ensuring the reliable operation of the ISO-NE system during the energy transition." and " DASI will compensate resources for filling the…
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Added by Dan McKay on February 8, 2025 at 7:59am — No Comments

The Maine PUC says time of use electricity pricing is coming.

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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Added by Dan McKay on February 6, 2025 at 5:39am — 6 Comments

Why is Maine Carrying the Renewable Load for All of New England

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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Added by Dan McKay on February 4, 2025 at 8:10am — 2 Comments

Chris Wright: Guilty as Charged (DeSmog backfires again

By 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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Added by Dan McKay on February 4, 2025 at 5:47am — 1 Comment

Trump’s plan to kill offshore wind is paying off

Story by Ry Rivard and Marie J. French
6 min read  POLITICO

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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Added by Dan McKay on February 4, 2025 at 5:41am — 1 Comment

80% to 90% of Revenues for Solar Come from RECs-30% to 50% for Wind

"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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Added by Dan McKay on February 3, 2025 at 7:42am — 2 Comments

ISO-NE Warnings. Will the Legislature React?

With limited options for storing natural gas, most natural-gas-fired plants rely on just-in-time fuel delivered to New England through interstate pipelines. However, interstate pipeline infrastructure has only expanded incrementally over the last several decades, even as reliance on natural gas for home heating and for power…
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Added by Dan McKay on February 2, 2025 at 6:50am — 3 Comments

Natural Gas Plants in New York Raking in the money from New England Ratepayers

The Portland Natural Gas Transmission Service (PNGTS) is Maine's delivery system of natural gas providing natural gas for homes, industrial plants and electric generation plants. Getting natural gas into Maine is crucial as a cost-effective fuel for home heating and cooking. Portland, Bangor, Augusta, Cumberland, Yarmouth, Falmouth have natural gas service utilizing PNGTS. A recent PUC case involved BlackRock's and Morgan Stanley's purchase of PNGTS. These Big Boys " are…
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Added by Dan McKay on February 1, 2025 at 6:17am — 2 Comments

AI needs electricity that the current grid can't handle. Enter CRE and a fossil fuel friendly federal government

What is Consumer Regulated Electricity? Why do we need it? How do we get it?…

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Added by Dan McKay on January 29, 2025 at 9:31am — 3 Comments

Utility concerns delay Passamaquoddy solar project

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire
Published January 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM EST

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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Added by Dan McKay on January 29, 2025 at 9:05am — 1 Comment

When will renewable energy lower our electricity costs in Maine?

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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Added by Dan McKay on January 28, 2025 at 8:38am — 2 Comments

Another Policy Program that Needs to be on the Chopping Block

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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Added by Dan McKay on January 27, 2025 at 8:15am — 3 Comments

If Not for the Fear of Human-caused Global Warming.

" Few utilities would build wind and solar systems if not for the fear of human-caused global warming. But the new executive orders make it clear that the US will no longer pursue efforts to “mitigate” climate change."
 "The orders also call for the EPA to …
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Added by Dan McKay on January 27, 2025 at 7:11am — 2 Comments

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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

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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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