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       WCSH doesn't understand the role solar, and wind plays in corrupting the grid, especially a grid that depends on natural gas-fired plants to backstop solar and wind. The global demand for natural gas and oil has reached the shores of Maine and because natural gas remains the dominant fuel for electricity generation in New England, the price of electricity mimics the price of natural gas.

ISO-NE Report. This is where electricity supply rates are determined

Wholesale power prices averaged $95.99 per megawatt-hour (MWh)¹ in the Real-Time Energy Market in August 2022, up 96% compared to the previous year. Day-Ahead Energy Market averages rose to $99.55/MWh, up 101% from August 2021.

Thanks Governor Mills.

By Allen Brooks --

“Although many may think the New England region is immune to an energy crisis past summer, winter peak demand is the issue.”

“New Englanders are largely unaware that the light at the end of the clean energy transition tunnel is not a train, it’s a blackout.”

Europe is facing an…

•               Cheap energy is historically man's best approach to sheltering from changing weather. Cheap energy depended on a competitive market structure, a level playing field where the best performing, least cost energy resources advanced to utilization.

[Editor’s Note: Renewable energy being compulsively imposed on us by corporatists, ideologues and special interests without concern for impacts is yielding energy rationing.]

    Whether it’s a hot Colorado summer or a cold United Kingdom winter, the misery of “green” policies becomes an everyday reality as hapless consumers are denied access to energy. When state lawmakers and energy providers…

Governor Mills explains her new motto. "Let's Do It" Let's grab, coerce, welcome as much money the feds will print for us. Let's dole out that money to our favorite donors and government programs and when the people's houses get cold, we will beg the feds to print a meager amount of additional money to buy oil.

Let's Do It. "Disregard the inflationary results of accepting printed…

New England launches 5-state grid initiative with offshore wind focus

• AuthorZack Hale
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• On May 27, 2022, Pine Tree Offshore Wind, LLC (“Pine Tree”) asked for approval of a long-term contract of at least 20 years with Central Maine Power Company (“CMP”) for capacity, energy or renewable energy credits to be generated by a floating offshore wind research array project to be located at a site to be leased in the Gulf of Maine from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”). Our…

What if every citizen of the United States, whether working or not, could go to the federal reserve and obtain a credit card that had no limits and would transfer to your children after you die, and they could transfer it on after death and on and on it goes.

• An endless amount of money to spend as you wish. Maybe you would like to end climate change by buying lots of solar panels and windmills to power the grid. Wouldn't that be wonderful?
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The Biden Administration announced Wednesday that Maine’s plan for creating more electric vehicle charging stations has been approved ahead of schedule.

Maine is among the first group of 35 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico with approved plans. The states will be eligible for more than $900 million in funding over the next two years to help build EV chargers along approximately 53,000 miles of highway across the country.

Maine’s EV charging plan…

“… a $150 per ton of CO₂-equivalent (CO₂e) tax [is estimated to globally] … increase the price of milk by approximately 49 percent, the price of rice by 67 percent, and the price of beef by a whopping 108 percent.”

Over the course of my career I have often been asked by concerned persons if there is any downside to implementing CO₂ emission reduction policies on the off-chance that model…

Contrary to the claims of proponents of the Green New Deal and Net Zero, fossil fuels are the greenest fuels.

First, uniquely among energy sources, fossil fuel use emits CO₂, which is the ultimate source of the elemental building block, carbon, found in all carbon-based life, i.e., virtually all life on Earth.

The increased amplitude of the seasonal cycle in atmospheric CO2 and satellite-borne instrumentation to measure solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from…

The global energy crisis appears to have strengthened the resolve of Western political leaders to not just continue but accelerate the transition toward green energy. Last month, U.S. President Joe Biden signed legislation that aims to spend $370 billion on wind, solar, electric cars and other forms of green tech. California legislators and regulators …

•  Natural Gas prices set the price of electricity in New England, and they are the highest they have ever been. This means wind, solar and all the rest making up the generation mix are reaping the high prices also.

• Under a competitive market situation, the generation types finding newfound revenue would contemplate expanding plant capacity and, even, build new…