Dan McKay's Blog – May 2023 Archive (26)

Surging New England Energy Prices: No Surprise

By Steve Goreham -- May 30, 2023

“New England home heating and electricity prices are on the rise with no end in sight. Consumers paid record high energy bills last winter, even though the winter was not unusually cold. Shortages of natural gas and green energy policies will drive New England prices higher and raise the chance of electricity blackouts.”

Residential energy bills in New England this year were the…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 30, 2023 at 5:52am — 1 Comment

Where O Where is Maine Getting Its 51% Renewables

    April 2023 Generation in New England

Added by Dan McKay on May 26, 2023 at 5:47am — 1 Comment

A Grid Screaming for Nuclear

“California’s Duck Curve Hits Record Lows”

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- May 23, 2023

“The forced energy transformation crowd continues to be in denial about how badly the California grid has been compromised by wind and solar, how…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 23, 2023 at 5:41am — 2 Comments

The Chase for Carbon Zero is Futile With Wind and Solar, With or Without Storage

The following is a guest article by Bryan Leyland.

Many governments in the Western world have committed to “net zero” emissions of carbon in the near future. The US and UK both say they will deliver by 2050. It’s widely believed that wind and solar power can achieve this. This belief has led the US and British governments, among others, to promote and heavily subsidize wind and…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 21, 2023 at 6:02pm — 2 Comments

All Clean Energy Paths Point to Dispatchable Nuclear

           The Six New England States Have Lofty Renewable Targets

Connecticut @ 100% Target

Massachusetts @…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 20, 2023 at 6:59am — No Comments

At the Heart of a Proposed CMP and Versant Takeover

14 hours ago
I'm not defending CMP by any means, but if you think there are smarter people in our state that understand how to run a power system both reliably and economically, you will be sadly mistaken. They will use a consumer owned utility to advance their green energy goals and do it with no planning, in the way they are doing it now. People really dislike CMP, and some of that is…
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Added by Dan McKay on May 19, 2023 at 5:25am — No Comments

BOEM Seeks Public Input on Draft Environmental Analysis for Proposed Wind Energy Project Offshore New Jersey

                             How to Comment  

Comments can be submitted in the following ways:   

  1. In written form by mail, enclosed in an envelope labeled “Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind South COP DEIS” and addressed to Program Chief, Office of Renewable Energy Programs, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, 45600…
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Added by Dan McKay on May 17, 2023 at 5:30am — No Comments

After They Tried to Sink Lobstermen with North Atlantic Right Whales

Dear Federal Government: Transparency on Wind and Whales, Please - Master Resource

"The LOA(Letter of Authorization) is premature for another reason as well. In October 2022, NOAA and NMFS, along with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), issued a draft strategy for addressing the impacts of…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 16, 2023 at 5:59am — 2 Comments

The "Taking" of the Whales, The Dolphins, The Seals = Corruption

By Sherri Lange -- May 15, 2023

“As of mid-March 2023, NOAA Fisheries has handed out 15 marine mammal Incidental Take Authorizations (ITAs) to offshore wind projects from NC to MA. These will allow companies to ‘take’ 111,817 whales, dolphins and seals. The harassment, injury, and killing of marine mammals are referred to as…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 15, 2023 at 5:31am — 1 Comment

How Living Like Cave People Would Be So Virtuous

How Big Oil is manipulating the way you think about climate change

Story by Kathleen Dean Moore • Yesterday 10:00 AM
 

In medieval times, gamekeepers trained dogs to the hunt…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 14, 2023 at 6:47am — 2 Comments

Rising costs of solar subsidies in Maine prompts debate over program’s future

https://www.mainepublic.org/people/kevin-miller

Maine's public advocate is warning that electric ratepayers are about to be hit with another price increase unless lawmakers change a law that encourages solar energy development.

"This program just keeps giving and giving,” said William Harwood of Maine’s Office of the Public Advocate. “There are more…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 13, 2023 at 5:18am — 3 Comments

A rate hike that should have never happened.

Natural gas prices dictate the wholesale price of electricity in New England. The price of wind and solar projects dictate the retail price of electricity in Maine(Over 2000 megawatts)

"The Vice President of customer service for CMP, Linda Ball, says of the 62,000 disconnect notices that went out this year about 5%, or 3,100 customers had their power turned off. The increase is…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 11, 2023 at 6:13am — No Comments

A 10 Percent ‘Community Solar’ Discount? Think Again!

By Joseph Toomey -- May 9, 2023

“A 10% reduction off the retail rate for wholesale power would net Summit Ridge Energy a price of $0.1181 per kWh, which is 244% higher than the average wholesale rate in 2021 that all other power producers received. And that boost will be absorbed and passed on to all retail ratepayers.”

“The $2.5 billion investment in production plants that Q-Cells promises isn’t really coming from the company,…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 9, 2023 at 6:02am — 1 Comment

How can electric ratepayers be on the hook for 220 million dollars NET ENERGY BILLING

The Ratepayers are underwriting the following destruction of income, environmental disaster and lobbyists' dreams, thanks to a brainwashed legislature and governor:

Chair Lawrence, Chair Zeigler and Honorable Persons of the EUT Committe

LD 1347 "An Act to Eliminate the Current Net…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 8, 2023 at 4:14pm — No Comments

Climate for sale

Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2023 at 6:22am — No Comments

Still Not 100% Renewables

Added by Dan McKay on May 6, 2023 at 7:14am — No Comments

The IPCC's perversion of science

The IPCC's Synthesis Report severely distorts science to advance a corrupt political agenda.

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Added by Dan McKay on May 4, 2023 at 4:57pm — 3 Comments

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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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