Dan McKay's Blog – May 2022 Archive (8)

What Gives?

What gives? 

  Electricity prices are soaring, unpaid power bills are mounting, the scramble to reduce electricity usage is bottoming out, rooftop solar panels are too expensive, even with government intervention.
  Government Intervention, the most perilous two words in the vocabulary of words. It has caused successes to become failures. Its history is full of unintended consequences and what was once unbelievable is just about upon us.
   Surely,…
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Added by Dan McKay on May 30, 2022 at 7:25am — 4 Comments

National News Reports Predict Electricity Shortages Are Coming.

  The path to comfort slipped right through our hands. Electricity is great when it is just a flip of the switch away, but life can be excruciating when electricity is interrupted, especially when interruptions coincide with unbelievable high prices. 

  Electricity was never meant to be a luxury item, just for the few.  It is one of the most valuable resources for the improvement of everyone's living standards. 
  Whether you believe…
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Added by Dan McKay on May 28, 2022 at 7:41am — 4 Comments

As Energy Prices Rise, Thousands of Mainers at Risk of Losing Power and Sicko Berry Wants to See Higher Fossil Fuel Prices

A 2019 study by the Maine Office of the Public Advocate found that low-income households spent on average, 19 percent of their income on energy costs. With those costs now nearly double the 2019 amount, that 19 percent could be closer to 40 percent now, said state Rep. Seth Berry, D-Bowdoinham.

“That doesn’t leave you much to feed your kids,” Berry said.

There’s no good answer, Berry said.

“The $850 checks (and) the other, federal monies were intended to help offset…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 22, 2022 at 7:38am — 4 Comments

RECs: The Hidden Costs of Renewables

In places like New England, where land value makes it expensive to build new facilities, REC sales provide an essential revenue stream for renewable energy developers. Each REC has a price. The price is the additional amount needed per MWh by the renewable energy generator to make post-1997 projects financially feasible. By mandating this type of renewable energy, the law is ensuring increased renewable energy supply in a space where supply would not get built without a…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 10:37am — 4 Comments

A Plan of Unintended Consequences

The Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan is the Governor’s plan, approved by the Legislature, to invest nearly $1 billion in Federal American Rescue Plan funds to improve the lives of Maine people and families
 
From this money:
 

This new program builds upon actions already…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 7:26am — No Comments

An Appropriate Title

Con-Ed, an out of state energy company is attempting to bully the Maine PUC in accepting their terms for the construction of transmission services to Northern Maine that will hurt the ratepayers. 

Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 7:14am — No Comments

Communism At Work

  Androscoggin County Valley of Governments will use its award to help four towns –

   Town of Jay

    , Carthage , Greenwood and

   Town of Chesterville

    – develop climate planning priorities . “AVCOG serves some of the state’s most vulnerable populations , and with 72% of the Maine’s communities lacking planning staff , we applaud the Maine Won’t Wait climate action plan for identifying our work as critical in…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 7:05am — 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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