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Added by Dan McKay on December 27, 2022 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

The Electric Bill Mostly Originates from ISO-NE Actions

  

Components of a Maine Electric Bill Over the Years: 

The Green Bar Is the …

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Added by Dan McKay on December 27, 2022 at 6:20am — No Comments

A Few RGGI Facts and Maine Fossil Fuel Plants

RGGI, a carbon tax scheme, charges each plant at a per ton of C02 emitted during operating times.

  • RGGI has been in effect since 2008 when the price for emitting C02 was $3.30 per ton
  • RGGI prices for 2022 are $13.46 per ton, a 307% increase
  • Maine has 5 natural gas-fired plants and one oil-fired plant that…
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Added by Dan McKay on December 26, 2022 at 8:30am — 2 Comments

There Are Other Avenues to Inexpensive, Reliable Power

                                            The Solution to Maine's ISO-NE Problem

Added by Dan McKay on December 26, 2022 at 5:37am — No Comments

Maine, We Have a Problem

   Maine, is it time to abandon the sinking ship that is ISO-NE? Wholesale electric prices are soaring to $2+ a kilowatt hour as the temperatures hit the teens. It will get a heck of a lot colder than that before Winter gives way to Spring. Oil is being burned at a million gallons + per day to keep New England on the knife's edge of rolling blackouts.

    Yes, Maine's energy policies are as much to blame for current grid conditions as policies driven by other New…
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Added by Dan McKay on December 25, 2022 at 8:30am — No Comments

Oil is King in New England Again

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Added by Dan McKay on December 24, 2022 at 6:28am — 9 Comments

A REBUTTAL TO A STUDY OF WIND

THIS IS THE KIND OF BS THAT IS SENT TO THE PUC AND AUGUSTA LAWMAKERS TO INFLUENCE THEM INTO CONDONING THE RAPE OF THE RATEPAYERS BY ALLOWING INEFFICIENT WIND TO CORRUPT THE GRID!!

SEE BS STUDY FOLLOWING MY REBUTTAL 

     TO BE DISPATCHED INTO THE NEW ENGLAND GRID, A GENERATOR, NO MATTER THE RESOURCE PRODUCING IT, MUST OFFER IT"S OUTPUT (OR IN THE CASE OF WIND, THE ESTIMATED OUTPUT) AT A PRICE BELOW OTHER GENERATOR…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 23, 2022 at 2:43pm — 2 Comments

Will The Maine PUC Be Logistically Consistent or Politically Biased?

 The Maine PUC recently rejected a proposal for one-time payment of $75 to low-income people with electricity bills and emphasized that it would shift costs to other ratepayers. 

    The Maine PUC is surely aware that the Aroostook Wind Project will inflict costs on all ratepayers of all incomes. Will the argument that was used to reject one proposal remain consistent…
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Added by Dan McKay on December 23, 2022 at 1:12pm — No Comments

Maricopa County Attorney Goes on Bizarre Rant, Says to Thousands of Disenfranchised Voters from Election Day “You Reap What You Sow”

The attorney argues that voters who chose to vote on election day should have known it was going to disenfranchise them.

WTH, In the case the judge declares a revote, will it be a one-day event and is this attorney warning that the county will again screw it…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 23, 2022 at 6:44am — 2 Comments

Hypocrisy Everywhere

Added by Dan McKay on December 20, 2022 at 6:42am — No Comments

“Energy is not for conserving; it is for unleashing to serve us,

The Cult of Darkness

By Edward Hudgins -- December 20, 2022

“Energy is not for conserving; it is for unleashing to serve us, to make our lives better, to allow us to realize our dreams and to reach for the stars, those bright lights that pierce the darkness of the night.”

Since early men ignited the first fires in caves, the unleashing of energy for light, heat, cooking, and every human…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 20, 2022 at 5:48am — No Comments

Who does the Maine PUC Stand With?

THE STATEMENT FROM THE MAINE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION TO BIDDERS OF THE AROOSTOOK PROJECT:

 NOTE REGARDING EVALUATION OF COST: The Commission’s evaluation will focus on the cost and benefits to Maine ratepayers rather than the overall costs and benefits of the project. …

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Added by Dan McKay on December 15, 2022 at 5:17pm — No Comments

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

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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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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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