Dan McKay's Blog – April 2024 Archive (11)

What went wrong on December 24, 2022?

This report, meant to instill fear of power blackouts is part of a report that glorifies offshore wind as a savior during cold weather events. Do not remove your wood stoves for heat pumps.

Offshore Wind Will Add Power When New England Needs It Most - Union of Concerned Scientists (ucsusa.org)…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 29, 2024 at 7:43am — 6 Comments

The Plan to Kill Off Electricity, The RGGI Plan

  • RGGI sells allowances. Each allowance represents a ton of C02 emissions from power plants. The power plants expected to purchase these allowances are participants in RGGI. They become participants by decision of State Legislatures who enroll in RGGI by writing a law to that effect.
  • All natural gas-fired and oil-fired plants that have nameplate capacity over 25 megawatts are required to purchase allowances from RGGI and include the cost…
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Added by Dan McKay on April 28, 2024 at 8:30am — No Comments

Energy Policies Promoting Renewables Increases Electricity Prices Rapidly

This graph completely debunks the notion that renewables suppress the wholesale costs of electricity in the New England Market.

In this graph, Carbon Dioxide costs to fossil fuel generation plants are monetized to dollars per megawatt hour. CO2 costs are applied by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the costs to generators are passed to electricity customers. It is a…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 27, 2024 at 8:08am — 2 Comments

State Senator: NH Could Benefit From Offshore Wind Leases Announced for Gulf of Maine

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org

CONCORD – An announcement Wednesday from the Biden Administration that it is on track to offer a lease auction for commercial scale offshore wind for the Gulf of Maine this year, “puts the state on notice” that if it wants the jobs and the investment which comes from this renewable source “we’ve got to work on it now,” said state Sen. David Watters, D-Dover.

Watters said that the Gulf of Maine, off the state’s shores is known as a “sweet spot” with…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 26, 2024 at 8:58am — 1 Comment

Maine seeks input ahead of 3-GW offshore wind solicitation

https://renewablesnow.com/news/maine-seeks-input-ahead-of-3-gw-offshore-wind-solicitation-855961/?utm_medium=email

Maine is seeking public input to underpin the future planning that the US state will need to make to achieve its goal of deploying up to 3 GW of offshore wind turbine capacity by 2040.

The feedback will be…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 26, 2024 at 8:39am — 4 Comments

Reprioritize Maine

  Maine has an electricity supply problem. Non-cooperative weather breaking down the physical delivery system is getting more frequent and widespread. Our utilities are trying to keep up, but the trees get in the way. A state that is 90% canopied by forest growth should not have any adversity towards cleaning out weak, dead, and obviously old and unsteady trees away from power lines. How many standby household generators are called to operate as the power is interrupted and restoration…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 7, 2024 at 9:25am — 4 Comments

Maine Public Utilities Commission hosts virtual “Coffee & Conversation” with community

In the first RFP for the Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development Program, the PUC issued the following statement to all bidders prior to selection of projects:
 
 
NOTE REGARDING EVALUATION OF COST: The Commission’s evaluation will focus on the cost and benefits to Maine ratepayers rather than the overall costs and benefits of the project. ( Bold, italic and underline by…
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Added by Dan McKay on April 4, 2024 at 9:26am — 1 Comment

Low-carbon shift raises risk of blackouts, grid execs warn

By Peter Behr | 04/03/2024 06:38 AM EDT

Snowballing policy and infrastructure issues pose a threat to electric reliability as a greener U.S. economy demands more power.

Executives of U.S. regional power grids are warning they face new and unprecedented challenges as energy demand grows and the industry takes on the enormous shift to carbon-free electricity.

Without…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 4, 2024 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

Buying Off Maine Businesses and Farmers for Coerced Approval of the Green Agenda

Seventeen Maine farms and other…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 3, 2024 at 9:19am — 2 Comments

Propagandizing Maine Regulatory Agencies

The Crazies are now assaulting major regulatory agencies with trash talk.

The PUC is not immune either. 

Democrats are the worse.

                                        Maine Land Use Planning Commission…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 3, 2024 at 8:59am — 2 Comments

California Floating Wind Turbines? Environmental Pushback

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- April 2, 2024

“It is entirely possible that the total costs to build, maintain and replace units every 20+ years (at end of service) would be prohibitive compared to other sources of energy. Beyond these cost considerations, sources indicate that the turbine blades cannot be recycled and are piling up in landfills. Fossil fuels will also still be needed to maintain the lubrication of these units, and what about…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 2, 2024 at 11:10am — No 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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