Dan McKay's Blog – December 2022 Archive (39)

More Energy From Hydro-Quebec is Best For The Vermont Economy

Feb 01, 2017 · By Willem Post

Five years ago, Gov. Shumlin declared Vermont’s energy goal to be “90% renewable energy by 2050”. The General Assembly has never enacted this declaration, but it did establish a Renewable Portfolio Standard, RPS, requiring 55% of retail electricity sales to be from renewable sources by…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 13, 2022 at 4:19pm — 1 Comment

Hydro-Québec to acquire 13 hydropower generating stations in New England

Montréal, October 12, 2022

Press Release

HQI US Holding LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hydro-Québec, has entered into an agreement to acquire Great River Hydro, LLC, which owns 13 hydropower generating stations with a total installed capacity of 589 megawatts along New England’s Connecticut and Deerfield rivers in the states of Vermont, New Hampshire and…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 13, 2022 at 4:11pm — No Comments

EXPORTS TO NEW ENGLAND

EXPORTS TO NEW ENGLAND

Hydro-Québec has been selling electricity into New England since the 1980s. This U.S. region accounts for about half the company’s exports.

In the early 1990s, Hydro-Québec commissioned the Radisson–Nicolet–Des Cantons line (also referred to as the multiterminal direct-current system, Phase II), a 450-kV DC line that connects the La Grande…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 13, 2022 at 4:06pm — 1 Comment

Sununu Floats New ‘Version’ of Failed Northern Pass Hydro In Face of High Energy Costs

By PAULA TRACY, InDepthNH.org



CONCORD – Gov. Chris Sununu has been doing a deep dive into the exploding heat and energy costs looking at the region’s grid into the future, renewables, and said he believes that hydropower is one of the state’s best options for inexpensive, renewable energy.



“This is the issue over the next few months,” Sununu stressed at a meeting with the press…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 13, 2022 at 3:57pm — No Comments

Will Massachusetts Play into Maine's PUC's Game?

  •    The PUC has said before the Aroostook County Wind Project and after the bids came in that there is no way they will accept any proposal that raises the electric costs on Mainers.
  •      Even if Massachusetts offers to buy all the generation AND pay for the entire construction of the 2.78 billion dollar transmission line from hell, Maine ratepayers are in for a world of hurt.
  •     The…
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Added by Dan McKay on December 13, 2022 at 6:34am — 3 Comments

Wanted: An Independent to Primary Angus King.for the Election in 2024

     Angus King claims he is an Independent. As the number of Independents grows in the US Senate, it is about time to recognize the Independent Party as a political party separate from the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

     How would the Independent Party King react to a fellow Independent seeking to unseat him in an Independent Party Primary?

Added by Dan McKay on December 12, 2022 at 5:36pm — 1 Comment

Sens. Collins, King introduce bill to lower cost of heating options ( And Send Us Back A Couple Centuries)

WASHINGTON, D.C. Maine (WABI) - Senators Susan Collins and Angus King have introduced a bill to help lower the cost of home heating options.

The BTU Tax Credit Expansion Act incentives the purchase of biomass stoves and boilers, such as pellet stoves.

The legislation would increase the maximum rebate for these innovative heating sources from…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 12, 2022 at 3:39pm — 1 Comment

The only way Maine will get to zero carbon in the electric generation sector is to get out of ISO-NE.

       The only way Maine will get to zero carbon in the electric generation sector is to get out of ISO-NE.

       The choice between wind and solar and reliable electricity

      The New England states are chasing zero carbon at the expense of reliability. 



      ISO-NE owns the…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 12, 2022 at 6:31am — No Comments

Future of Aroostook clean energy project may hinge on Massachusetts

MUST READ!   THIS PROJECT HAS ABSOLUTELY NO SIMILARITIES TO NECEC FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. NECEC WILL DELIVER CLEAN AND FIRM ENERGY THAT WILL DISPLACE IN-STATE FOSSIL FUEL PLANTS THAT HAVE SUDDENLY INCREASED OUTPUT AND CARBON EMISSIONS AND GIVEN MAINE UNBEARABLY HIGH…
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Added by Dan McKay on December 11, 2022 at 7:20am — 2 Comments

Excess Generation from New Brunswick Province

2023 Standard Offer Prices and New Brunswick Marketing Corp. Level of Supply to Each Maine Utilities Service Territory.

There seems to be a correlation between the proximity and level of supply % offered by the New Brunswick Province and Each Utility's Rate …

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Added by Dan McKay on December 10, 2022 at 7:16am — 3 Comments

Kids and Indians

Added by Dan McKay on December 5, 2022 at 4:17pm — No Comments

New England Common Sense Replaced with Political Insanity

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Added by Dan McKay on December 5, 2022 at 6:03am — 2 Comments

Maine Pinched

    If the Maine Legislature is really aiming to reach zero-carbon in electric generation, they may want to look at the upsurgence of production from in-state natural gas plants. Maine has 5 natural gas-fired plants and one oil-fired plant that must register with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and pay a fee based on carbon emissions.…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 4, 2022 at 7:18am — No Comments

 For Sale: Two Private electricity delivery and collection companies. For the mere price of $13.7 billion dollars, you can be the owner of two companies, Central Maine Power and Versant. If you promi…

 For Sale: Two Private electricity delivery and collection companies. For the mere price of $13.7 billion dollars, you can be the owner of two companies, Central Maine Power and Versant. If you promise to run these companies as you would run a charity bake sale and comply with Seth Berry's fantastical advice, you will be entitled to pay a sum of money that is more than the entire Maine State Budget for 2022-…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 3, 2022 at 8:01am — No Comments

Madman Seth Berry

  Unable to force the collapse of Central Maine Power and Versant through fantasy legislation, ugly innuendos and outright lies, Seth Berry has decided that these companies no longer have a right to exist, and ratepayers should cough up $13.7 billion dollars to buy CMP and Versant so that he "will be taking a…
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Added by Dan McKay on December 3, 2022 at 6:43am — 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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