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

Governor Mills Statement on 2023 Standard Offer Electricity Supply Rates

November 16, 2022

Governor Janet Mills issued the following statement today on the new standard offer electricity supply rates for 2023:

The standard offer prices accepted by the PUC are the direct result of Maine’s overreliance on fossil fuels, particularly natural gas, and the unprecedented volatility in global energy markets since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all of which are now costing Maine people and…

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Added by Dan McKay on November 16, 2022 at 4:19pm — 4 Comments

Here It Is, "Vision of Windmills and Solar Plants" in Color Book Form

Added by Dan McKay on November 13, 2022 at 8:39am — No Comments

It's Evil and It's a Crime

  • Around 2020, it was decided that electric utilities that owned both generation and distribution of electricity were harmful to customers, therefore a law was enacted to strip generator plant ownership from existing investor-owned utilities(Decoupling) and let generation plants compete against each other in an auction market to improve quality and reduce prices to purchasers of electricity.
  • What the hell happened?
  • Not only is the quality of…
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Added by Dan McKay on November 12, 2022 at 8:09am — No Comments

An Energy Policy for Maine and Maybe New Hampshire and Vermont

  • Maine policy changes that would reduce the cost of electricity to everyone in Maine

  • 1. Instead of counting renewable energy as purchases from renewable plants throughout New England and New York, set up the criteria measuring renewable energy as renewable energy produced by Maine plants only. Such data displays Maine's contribution by Maine-made electrical production, which is currently at 80% + renewable and exceeding policy…
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Added by Dan McKay on November 10, 2022 at 8:45am — 4 Comments

Maine Has Storage. It's a 862.7-Megawatt Plant in Yarmouth

Mainers, even with heat pumps, store heating oil for the coldest days 

Study group proposes modest goals for Maine renewable energy storage

BY TUX TURKELPRESS HERALD    
Posted January 8,…
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Added by Dan McKay on November 7, 2022 at 6:36am — 2 Comments

100% Clean Power at Reasonable Prices

  •   New England states that border Canada can easily obtain reasonably priced electricity.
  •  New England States that border Canada can easily escape the energy behemoths that control the costs of electricity for all of New England.
  • New England states that border Canada have all the resources available to be " Electric Independent"
  • Fact is the New England states bordering Canada need neither wind and/or…
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Added by Dan McKay on November 6, 2022 at 7:14am — 2 Comments

12 years of Perverted Energy Policies Cripples New England

  • Massachusetts Standard Offer for 2023 = 32 cents per kilowatt-hour. Total cost including delivery costs = 44 cents per kilowatt-hour

  • New Hampshire Standard Offer for 2023 = 22 cents per kilowatt-hour. Total cost including delivery costs = 34 cents per kilowatt-hour…

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Added by Dan McKay on November 6, 2022 at 5:30am — 1 Comment

More Bits and pieces from the Maine PUC ORDER APPROVING TERM SHEETS for "The Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development"

King Pine Wind is a wind project of up to 1,000 MW and
is expected to consist of up to 179 5.6-MW turbines,
located northwest of Houlton in Aroostook and Penobscot
Counties (Facility).

Added by Dan McKay on November 5, 2022 at 8:45am — 2 Comments

More Bits and pieces from the Maine PUC ORDER APPROVING TERM SHEETS for "The Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development"

"  . The Commission recognizes that obtaining access to land rights can present challenges, but the statute does not require a developer to have site control to submit a bid, nor does it set forth a preference for a proposal that demonstrates having such site control."

 "This Order does not address the myriad regulatory approvals and permits that a

Project of this…

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Added by Dan McKay on November 5, 2022 at 8:20am — 2 Comments

Bits and pieces from the Maine PUC ORDER APPROVING TERM SHEETS for "The Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development"

  • The PUC states: " the wind power Project is expected to provide a ratepayer benefit of $1.08 billion" The PUC explains this saving occurs "The projected ratepayer benefit was evaluated based on the cost of energy less the forecasted wholesale value of that energy."  Case Number 2021-00369  
  • The PUC does not explain how they…
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Added by Dan McKay on November 5, 2022 at 7:30am — 1 Comment

What Else Besides Russia, is Driving Surging Natural Gas Costs, Mr. Miller? (Hint: Renewables)

What’s driving Maine’s surging electricity costs? Despite campaign rhetoric, not renewable energy

Maine Public | By Kevin…
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Added by Dan McKay on November 4, 2022 at 7:05pm — 3 Comments

Mainers Not Allowed to See the Details of Aroostook Wind Proposal, But Massachusetts Is

Memorandum of Understanding Maine Clean Energy Procurement 
 This Memorandum of Understanding (this MOU), effective as of October 21, 2022 (the Effective Date), establishes a framework for the Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) to share information with the Department of Energy Resources (DOER) and the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office (AGO) that MPUC has obtained through a certain procurement it initiated, and is by and…
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Added by Dan McKay on November 4, 2022 at 6:39am — 4 Comments

Maine PUC, Collection Agency or Socialist Agency

CMP is not permitted to turn customers’ power off between Nov. 15 and April 15 without express permission from the Public Utilities Commission.

Added by Dan McKay on November 2, 2022 at 6:21am — 2 Comments

Now, Some Comic Relief

Natural Gas Power Plants Begin Their Inevitable Decline

Maxx Chatsko 

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Gas-fired power plants have likely reached their peak share of the U.S. power mix. High prices and renewables are to blame.…

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Added by Dan McKay on November 1, 2022 at 6:12pm — 2 Comments

Silence is the 1.8 Billion Dollar Golden Egg for Long Roads County Wind Project

Due to the silence the media and the political candidates have given to the PUC disclosure that Mainers are potentially on the hook for 1.8 billion dollars if the Aroostook County Wind Project is not rejected, my media subscriptions will be canceled as well as my votes for the nowhere to be heard legislative candidates.

Added by Dan McKay on November 1, 2022 at 4:40am — 1 Comment

The Dangers of Low Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations

By  -- November 1, 2022

Thus, CO2 literally is the “food” that sustains essentially all plants (and animals who consume plants, including humans) on the face of the Earth. And when that food supply is diminished, nature begins to diminish.

In…

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Added by Dan McKay on November 1, 2022 at 4:31am — 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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