"The Energy Institute’s Statistical Review of World Energy, with data for 2025, has been released and shows that fossil fuels still provide 86% of the global energy supply."…

https://www.bluestateshighrates.com/

To the Maine PUC: Could you please explain why you arranged contracts with CMP and Versant to purchase power that raised electric bills by $65,996,299.00 from 2018 to 2025?

Under Maine law, utility companies cannot disconnect residential customers between Nov. 15 and April 15 to protect people from losing heat during the coldest months. Outside that period, however, customers who fall behind on payments can lose…

LCOE = Levelized Cost of Electricity

VCEA = Virginia Clean Energy Act,  which is almost a complete replica of Maine's renewable energy acts

Thanks to "Energy Bad Boys" for this honest assessment of renewable energy costs versus existing energy costs.…

The Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development Program( Aroostook County Wind Project) is deemed a public policy project. Below, in the final paragraph, is how the 2 billion dollar plus costs of the project developed by ISO-NE will be allocated among the New England States. 

Of course, there are additional costs with the generation power purchase agreement which includes a generator lead line…

Here ISO-NE explains how the different types of generation compete to operate in the wholesale market.

The key points to a truely competitive market are referenced by ISO-NE as:

• "Resource owners are motivated to offer prices close to their actual costs. If they bid too high, they may not be selected at all."
• "Lower‑cost and more efficient resources are…

Here is the new scam invading Maine:

New To Maine. Join the 200,000+ people who have signed up for 100% clean energy with CleanChoice

Here is a subscriber's response:

Maine PUC to the rescue, while they keep implementing costly procurements of wind, solar and battery storage projects underwritten by ratepayer money. …

Here is the ISO-NE final statement in a 205 page annual market report for 2025:

Efficiency Maine Trust(EMT) requested $87,500,000 from Maine electric ratepayers in 2026, but a carryover of funds from previous procurements in the amount of $9,600,000 reduced  this to a new request to $77,943,489

Efficiency Maine Trust(EMT) requested…

RGGI is out of control. Not only do electric customers bills include extraordinary carbon dioxide taxes, these taxes affected the 2025 wholesale prices of electricity by adding $9 per megawatt hour to compensate natural gas plants that pay the tax, AND it also boosts the payments to wind and solar and battery storage that ride the coattails of the settled price of natural gas output. 

RGGI is a government scam, an…

Maine is a participant in the ISO-NE network. As such, the state and the lawmakers of the state of Maine must realize that ISO-NE makes no decisions in the selection of generation types that are used for New England's electricity supply, although the States do, at the peril to all New England electricity consumers.

ISO-NE tracks the renewable resources the states select and found the following impacts:

"Renewable Generation…

https://www.masterresource.org/uncategorized/sierra-club-floods-climate-zone/

"I challenged readers to sign up. We, too, can weigh-in on “How important is clean, renewable energy to you” and “How important is protecting our public lands from destructive drilling, mining, and fracking?“. I signed up. I am a Climate…

"Patrick Drupp, the Sierra Club’s climate policy director, said poor housing stock and financial barriers to clean-energy technologies contribute to the cost."

“Clean energy is obviously the fastest and cheapest form of energy,” Drupp said. “Bringing it on-grid as fast as possible would be one of the biggest things you could do to lower electricity prices for people.”

The entire report:  …

Currently 8500 megawatts of New England natural gas plant output at wholesale cost of 4 cents per kilowatt, unincumbered by heating demand, is feeding the New England grid. 

With expanded pipeline capaicity to provide for winter heating and electricity production, simutaneously, electric prices would fall like a rock in New England.…

ISO-NE reports 2025 electricity costs soar due to political conditions that kept needed natural gas from generation plants, the expanding RGGI carbon dioxide tax and the out of control growth of solar esasperating depleted "flexible, dispatchable resources"

" Higher natural gas prices were the principal driver of increased wholesale costs, rising 105% year over-year to $6.27/MMBtu…

• Supply costs are inclusive of certain State energy policies, such as the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RECs) and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative( A Carbon Dioxide Tax that raises supply costs…

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

Request for Proposals for Renewable

Energy Generation and Transmission

Projects Pursuant to the Northern Maine

Renewable Energy Development…

It's about transparency:

The Maine PUC is not transparent!