Dan McKay's Blog – November 2022 Archive (38)

Maine’s High Court upholds CMP lease of public land key to $1 billion power line

 
Another victory for Ratepayers
Down with natural gas plant and oil plants in Maine

Added by Dan McKay on November 30, 2022 at 6:06am — No Comments

Maine, We Have a Problem

  •    Why does Maine continue to support natural gas-fired plants operating within the state when it is well understood that the volatile price of natural gas is driving electricity prices so high that 40% of the people of Maine find themselves unable to pay their monthly bill?
   
  •    The state's long range and short range decarbonization plans barely touch upon the…
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Added by Dan McKay on November 27, 2022 at 7:00am — 3 Comments

The Democrats' Playbook on Energy

President Biden’s Energy Motto: Not in the U.S.A. Nor Its Territories

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Added by Dan McKay on November 25, 2022 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Households in the Northeast Brace for Costly Heating Bills

Households in the Northeast Brace for Costly Heating Bills

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Added by Dan McKay on November 25, 2022 at 12:15pm — 1 Comment

Dire warnings about winter power grid reliability

Dire warnings…

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Added by Dan McKay on November 25, 2022 at 9:35am — 2 Comments

"The Maine Utility/Regulatory Reform and Decarbonization Initiative," A 32 Page Report, Never Once Addresses Natural Gas-Fired Generation Plants Operating In Maine, But It Does Offer A Lot Of Custome…

"The Maine Utility/Regulatory Reform and Decarbonization Initiative," A 32 Page Report, Never Once Addresses Natural Gas-Fired Generation Plants Operating In Maine, But It Does Offer A Lot Of Customer Related Changes Needed

  • Renewable energy

In 2021, 72% of Maine's in-state electricity net generation came from renewable resources, down from 79% in…

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Added by Dan McKay on November 25, 2022 at 6:42am — No Comments

A Market Without Nuclear, Oil, Coal and the Inability to Increase Natural Gas= Disaster

Power Plant Retirements In ISO-NE Markets

With the transition to a power system made up of more resources with limited energy inventories (natural gas, wind, solar, battery storage), the region is losing traditional generators that have substantial on-site fuels (nuclear, oil, or coal) and can sustain extended operations during cold weather conditions for days and even weeks on end. More than 5,200 MW of oil, coal, and nuclear power plants will have retired from 2013 to…

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Added by Dan McKay on November 24, 2022 at 9:57am — No Comments

Scared, Merciless Politicians Inflicting Pain in Maine

Two Markets. One that is controlled by scarce natural gas and one controlled by abundant hydro power.

                     
  •  One state under siege by a commodity shared by five other states, a commodity that can produce effectively, but performs far less than desirable and whose supply remains stagnant as the whole world scrambles to access a politically manipulated…
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Added by Dan McKay on November 24, 2022 at 6:50am — No Comments

Coldest Morning of the Season and Electricity Prices Soar

Added by Dan McKay on November 21, 2022 at 5:26am — No Comments

Despathy: To meet carbon ‘goals,’ Vermont will play the corporate carbon credit game

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Guy Page

Nov 20

For anyone interested in recent actions related to the Clean Heat Standard saga and questionable actions by the Public Utilities Commission.…

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Added by Dan McKay on November 21, 2022 at 5:17am — 1 Comment

Analyzing Maine's Departure From ISO-NE

This data is from the Maine PUC 2021 Annual Report to the Legislature:

 "Electricity use by Maine consumers is currently about 12 million megawatt hours (MWh) per year, with a peak demand of about 2,000 MW. The total nameplate generation capacity of in-state plants is in the range of 4,500 MW. These plants operate in response to the ISO New…
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Added by Dan McKay on November 20, 2022 at 11:39am — 2 Comments

Canadian Electric Rates- US Dollars

New Brunswick 11.17 cents per kilowatt-hour
Quebec             6.08 cents per kilowatt-hour

Added by Dan McKay on November 19, 2022 at 7:53am — 3 Comments

Vermont has essentially no natural gas plants, yet being in ISO-NE, natural gas sets their retail prices, anyways

State Average Price - Standard Offer- From Maine PUC

Connecticut 11.335 (CT will set new standard service generation rates this week, effective Jan. 1, 2023.) -

Massachusetts 24.650 -

New Hampshire 18.304 -

Rhode Island 17.785 -

Vermont 18.035 -

New England 17.438

Added by Dan McKay on November 19, 2022 at 7:36am — 3 Comments

Maine Power to Maine People

Governor Mills, instead of  your staff approaching the cost of energy problem with more handouts, the people of Maine want systemic reform which begins with the immediate moratorium on "power purchase agreements", an out-of-market Ponzi scheme. The PUC is in the midst of developing a term sheet to burden Maine ratepayers with the $1.8 billion transmission line originating in…

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Added by Dan McKay on November 19, 2022 at 6:45am — 3 Comments

Scouting Maine's top greenhouse gas emitters by satellite

Scouting Maine's top greenhouse gas emitters by satellite

By Annie Ropeik

 

New data from the nonprofit …

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Added by Dan McKay on November 18, 2022 at 2:59pm — 1 Comment

Construction commences on Maine's largest solar project

WMTW 8, a biased news outlet, reports in typical " Void of Journalist" manner.\

This project carries a 152-megawatt nameplate capacity rating, but as we know, the capacity factor is about 14% and 0% during the evening, on cloudy days and during and after snowstorms. During the winter season, its capacity factor drops significantly.

This monstrosity takes away using the grid to transmit 152 megawatts of real power 

As if electric rates aren't high enough already, this…

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Added by Dan McKay on November 18, 2022 at 5:27am — 3 Comments

Disgraced FTX Founder Donated To Six RINOs Who Voted To Impeach Trump

Added by Dan McKay on November 18, 2022 at 4:46am — 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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