in September 2022, the (Maine PUC) Commission approved stipulations in a case (Docket # 2021-00325) to investigate Transmission and Distribution utility rate design to promote state climate change policy. The approved stipulations allow for the implementation of several new optional electric rates for residential, commercial, and large class customers for electric vehicles, energy storage technologies and heat…

The Aqua Ventus Project which has been on the PUC's books since 2010 is struggling as this letter of June 30,2023 explains …

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The legislative Council Votes to Accept or Reject Offered Bills To Present to the Whole Legislature.

These Bills Were Offered When It Was Realized the Northern Maine Renewable Was Slipped Through the Previous Legislative Session Before Knowing the Route the Transmission Portion of This Project Was Known by Anyone. A Billion Dollar Plus Transmission Line That the Maine Grid Doesn't Need to Keep Maine People Amply supplied With Electricity.

Thanks to Tanya…

Just as the Expedited Wind Law which unconstitutionally designated select areas in Maine that would receive favorable responses from permitting agencies, towns that find themselves at "Ground Zero" to the LS Power Powerline are instituting moratoriums and ordinances  …

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State agencies in Maine fell victim to a cyberattack and lost nearly all of the state population's data to hackers.

The state government …

Despite the fact that the carbon tax applied to fossil fuel generation has tripled in the last 7 years, Natural Gas-fired generation is 4% above the average electrical production since the inception of RGGI.

The PUC calculated that RGGI costs added 0.2 cents per kilowatt hour to ratepayer bills in 2016 and this year is 0.58 cents per kilowatt hour or $2.91 per month per 500 kilowatt hours consumed.

The Natural Resources Council of Maine, Conservation Law Foundation, Acadia Center, Maine Audubon, The Natural Conservancy, and Maine Conservation Voters jointly submit the attached letter. In this letter, we urge the Commission to work toward a successful conclusion to the negotiation of a Transmission Services Agreement for the Aroostook Renewable Gateway transmission project. This project is designed to unlock the significant onshore wind potential that exists in…

ISO-NE has a new, creative way to make intermittent solar become dispatchable. No, ISO-NE doesn't plan to make the sun shine at will. READ:

"According to recent reports filed by CMP and Versant Power, the net ratepayer costs of NEB projects that are already operational are more than $125 million per year.1 The OPA estimates that the cost will rise to approximately $220 million per year once additional projects are completed.…

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Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court rules the state’s governor overextended his power by signing the state up for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, …

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The stalemate continues. CMP and Versant are not budging from their refusal to commit to the terms from LS Power.

Unbelievably, the PUC isn't budging from its refusal to provide Maine people transparency in this case.

The latest word from the PUC staff: Docket No.…

This 2007 legislative statement from the "Wind Energy Act" is now 16 years old .

The statement rambles on declaring: "or nuclear fission, thereby displacing electrical energy provided by these other sources"

There are also several passages claiming wind energy "is an economically feasible, large-scale energy…