Feb. 20, 2009 ISO-NE question to CMP about MPRP :
Q. What percentage of this Project, if any, can be attributed solely for generation
integration?
March 16,2009 CMP answer :
A. None. 100% of the project was developed and designed solely to address reliability
issues in the Maine transmission system. At ISO's request, CMP evaluated the ability
of MPRP to accommodate the addition of wind generation resources, but no portion of
the project was modified as a…
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Maine may be even “ Greener “ than anyone realized. From the EIA website……………………………,
“Trade is highest in regions with large amounts of hydropower. Canadian hydroelectric generators are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest; in Northern Manitoba, which exports electricity via transmission lines running south through Minnesota and North Dakota; in Ontario bordering New York and Michigan; and in Quebec north of New England. Certain states rely heavily on imported electricity:…
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Maine and Massachusetts have the greatest potential to grow their renewable capacity while Connecticut has the least.
To be “Green” in New England is a matter of law, not individual choice. With the exception of Vermont, every other New England State has a Renewable Portfolio Standard which mandates a certain percentage of electricity sold within the State will be derived from renewable sources. Each year, this percentage increases at 1% for all States, except Connecticut, which…
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Added by Dan McKay on January 2, 2013 at 9:08am —
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"Through its Maine Power Reliability Program, CMP is upgrading a swath of power lines through central Maine to connect to lines from Canada." Excerpt from Sun Journal story : http://www.sunjournal.com/news/lewiston-auburn/2012/12/20/cmp-powers-larrabee-road-substation/1295931
This is the first I've heard of the connection to Canadian lines…
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" The PUC agrees that wind projects tend to reduce prices in the wholesale markets and contribute to energy diversity and price stability. "
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A wind developer contemplating a project in New York laments that the project must be put on hold due to electrical power prices currently at an all-time low because of oversupply of natural gas. See www.windaction.org “Galloo Island Wind Farm "on hold" for at least six months; low price of electricity cited “
At some point, the electricity produced from wind has to enter the market and is subject to the current market price. Sometimes, the…
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When I came across this quote, I couldn't help but think of Stantec, Sewall Co. Kleinschmidt and all the engineers hired by CMP trying to make a transmission fit for wind :
“No engineer could, or would, join [a government funded bound rubber band electricity generation plant].” Would that this were true, Mr. Hails. Given what I’ve seen, engineers would join with economists in a New York minute, putting grand make work on display with their shoulders to the wheel of making the…
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The Maine Public Utilities Commission ( Overseers of electric rates in Maine ) must be having one of those “ If we only knew then what we know now “ moments . In 2009, the PUC mandated a contract between a wind turbine project owner in Lincoln, Maine and Central Maine Power and Bangor-Hydro. An article from the Lewiston Sun Journal appearing in April 2010 states “The 20-year contract between Rollins’ owner, First Wind, and CMP and Bangor Hydro Electric Co. was hammered out by the Maine…
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"In EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2011, wind’s generation in 2030 is projected to be 159 billion kilowatt hours, about 70 percent higher than wind generation in 2010, but still a mere 3.2 percent share of generation. In EIA’s recent analysis evaluating an 80 percent clean energy standard by 2050, wind generation nearly doubles from the agency’s prediction in the Annual Energy Outlook by 2035. But an almost doubling in wind generation only provides a 6.3 percent share. EIA’s analysis of a 25…
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NORWOOD — Massachusetts
In a move toward energy efficiency, the Board of Selectmen, working as the town’s light commissioners, voted on Tuesday, May 25, to buy 17 percent of Spruce Mountain Wind Project’s electricity output.
“It’s a good move for the town to buy into the ‘green’ (energy) at a reasonable cost,” Selectman Bill Plasko said.
The electricity from Maine-based Spruce Mountain Wind Project makes up about 3 percent of the Norwood Light…
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First, they had problems finding an avenue of transmission for their Stetson project.It was resolved, but required some expensive people to convince some other expensive people. Then they had problems selling Rollins Wind Project output through CMP and Bangor Hydro. Resolved with help from the Maine PUC and the Renewable Portfolio Law. Then, they encountered problems convincing Rumford residents that they were the second coming of salvation. They left.
Now, they have problems with LURC and…
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Added by Dan McKay on October 23, 2011 at 7:08pm —
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One of the problems of installing wind turbines in remote locations such as Maine is having a highway for energy shipment. First Wind, Bangor Hydro and National Grid have an answer :
WALTHAM, Mass., Jul 11, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- National Grid and Emera Inc. subsidiary, Bangor Hydro Electric Company, have taken a major step in…
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Added by Dan McKay on October 8, 2011 at 4:00pm —
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"DiMasi business ties questioned: His killing of bill benefited friend"
By Frank Phillips, (Boston) Globe Staff, May 1, 2008
Just months after House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi killed a bill that was designed to block a controversial liquefied natural gas project from being built on 73 acres in Fall River, the landowner,
Jay Cashman, sold the property to the terminal developers and made a $14.2 million profit, according to a Globe review of real estate and…
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Added by Dan McKay on October 3, 2011 at 7:08pm —
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Former Mass. House Speaker Sal DiMasi found guilty
Guilty of conspiracy, extortion and fraud
What can this mean to you ? READ ON
BOSTON — An amendment that critics say would open Buzzards Bay to…
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Added by Dan McKay on September 19, 2011 at 8:24pm —
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To those who would want to change the scenery of Maine with their monstrous wind machines, Please take the time to read the Comprehensive Plans adopted by many communities throughout the rural part of this State. Almost every Comprehensive Plan recognizes the physical assets of local geographic features. Many allude to the beauty of mountainous views even as municipal congestion takes place below these same mountains.
Then, take note, that the unorganized territories became…
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Added by Dan McKay on July 10, 2011 at 8:48pm —
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THE MONSTROUSITY OF A MACHINE, AFFECTIONALLY KNOWN AS “ THE GREEN MACHINE “ OR “ THE FEEL-GOOD ALTERNATIVE TO FOSSIL FUELS ’ IS QUICKLY BECOMING THE WORST INVENTION OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY. THE INDUSTRIAL WIND MILL.THE NEWEST MODELS STAND OVER 400 FEET TALL WITH BLADES EXCEEDING 150 FEET IN LENGTH. ATOP A HOLLOW STEEL TUBULAR STRUCTURE SIT’S THE GUTS OF THE MACHINE WEIGHING AS MUCH AS 60 TONS WITH BLADES ADDING 40 TONS. IN ORDER TO KEEP FROM TOPPLING WITH ALL THIS WEIGHT CONCERNTRATED AT THE…
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Added by Dan McKay on June 25, 2011 at 11:21am —
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Woodstock wind towers to be in place by fall
By Ken Briggs
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Jun 09, 2011 12:00 am
WOODSTOCK — Andy Novey, from Patriot Renewables, told Woodstock Selectmen that his company is "aiming to start generating electricity by the end…
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As Congress hammers out legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to address the issue of global climate change, independent producers are elbowing in a place at the table for North American natural gas.
The top 28 independents – which deliver about 40 percent of U.S. natural gas…
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Added by Dan McKay on April 2, 2011 at 6:47pm —
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I must say, Iberdrola Renewable’s presentation in Bingham last week was a learning session for me. There’s obviously magic in them windmills. When I asked one man, proudly standing by with a colorful chart displaying a 10 mile per hour wind velocity differential between the high point of a particular blade tip to the low point of a particular blade tip, wouldn’t the differential wind forces set up by this cause imbalance at the rotor. He explained that the wind machine has properties…
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