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A Plan of Unintended Consequences

The Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan is the Governor’s plan, approved by the Legislature, to invest nearly $1 billion in Federal American Rescue Plan funds to improve the lives of Maine people and families
 
From this money:
 

This new program builds upon actions already…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 7:26am — No Comments

An Appropriate Title

Con-Ed, an out of state energy company is attempting to bully the Maine PUC in accepting their terms for the construction of transmission services to Northern Maine that will hurt the ratepayers. 

Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 7:14am — No Comments

Communism At Work

  Androscoggin County Valley of Governments will use its award to help four towns –

   Town of Jay

    , Carthage , Greenwood and

   Town of Chesterville

    – develop climate planning priorities . “AVCOG serves some of the state’s most vulnerable populations , and with 72% of the Maine’s communities lacking planning staff , we applaud the Maine Won’t Wait climate action plan for identifying our work as critical in…

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Added by Dan McKay on May 7, 2022 at 7:05am — 2 Comments

Collapsing The Grid by Increasing Demand While Decreasing Supply

Bitcoin miner comes to Lewiston, has plans for western Maine
Bitcoin mining is the process of earning Bitcoins — a decentralized digital currency, without a…
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Added by Dan McKay on April 16, 2022 at 7:25am — 7 Comments

The Many Shades of Green

"It's really important to think about what being green means. Being green is not a pro-human standard, because being green means minimizing human impact. If we want to minimize human impact, then that means that we shouldn't industrialize, we shouldn't use technology, we shouldn't develop, we never should've built New York City, we never should have a child. Ultimately, North Korea is a much greener country than South Korea when you look at it in terms of human…
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Added by Dan McKay on April 10, 2022 at 10:33am — 8 Comments

ISO-NE, HELL-BENT TO TURN OFF THE LIGHTS:

ISO-NE PRESS RELEASE March 31,2022

                                         "A CLEAR PATH FOR CLEAN ENERGY"…

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Added by Dan McKay on April 3, 2022 at 7:03am — 8 Comments

Does your legislator know these facts?

ISO-NE has an Open Access Transmission Tariff (OATT) which means as the grid operator it has to allow any and all types of resource generation to feed into the New England Grid, even if it is intermittent, dilute, garbage generation, etc. If there is room on the transmission system, every form of electricity is allowed.

ISO-NE allowed this because they thought an open, competitively bid pricing market would sort out the bad from the good. But, our fuckhead legislators…
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Added by Dan McKay on March 26, 2022 at 9:44am — 5 Comments

CONNECTIONS, CONNECTIONS, CONNECTIONS

A question asked about the Northern Maine, Troy Jackson proposal to build wind projects in the County and have the costs applied to Maine electric bills

Q43: "How should generation proposals evaluate their ability to bid or contract for capacity in ISO-NE if information about system upgrades is not available? "
Good Question, but there is a project that already has this information and the inside track to winning the Troy Jackson Jackpot

Craig…

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Added by Dan McKay on December 24, 2021 at 8:57am — 6 Comments

The climate change cabal has succeeded in raising the price of electricity to an amount that enables wind and solar projects to claim that they can save electric costs.

The climate change cabal has succeeded in raising the price of electricity to an amount that enables wind and solar projects to claim that they can save electric costs.

Added by Dan McKay on December 15, 2021 at 6:13am — 4 Comments

With The Rejection of NECEC, Maine Could Be the Black Sheep of the Regional New England Electric Network.

With the rejection of NECEC, Maine could become the black sheep of the regional New England electric network. 

Sure, New Hampshire rejected the same project, but New Hampshire already has a DC transmission line carved out, North to South, passing through the state. This line has no connections within New Hampshire, It is the true "Extension Cord" from Hydro-Quebec to Groton, Massachusetts.
As warnings from ISO-NE of impending struggles to provide the region…
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Added by Dan McKay on December 11, 2021 at 7:35am — 6 Comments

Renewable Portfolio Resource Breakdown For N.H. & VT.

According to the Maine PUC, the renewable portfolio standard in 2019 was satisfied as follows:



CLASS I Resources:    Average Price: $4.51 per MWh
                                 BIOMASS 89.31%
                                 HYDRO    10.67%
                                 WIND          0.02%
CLASS II Resources:     Average Price:  $0.97 per MWh
                                   BIOMASS         …
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Added by Dan McKay on December 10, 2021 at 7:50pm — 2 Comments

Projects Will NOT Help Achieve Maine's Renewable Portfolio Standard Goals.

"MAINE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION SELECTS RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS IN SECOND COMPETITIVE PROCUREMENT"

June 29, 2021

"Projects Will Help Achieve Maine's Renewable Portfolio Standard Goals"

 
 
HERE IS THE LATEST ROLL OF THE DICE ON RENEWABLES THAT THE PUC SELECTED FOR THE RATEPAYERS. …
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Added by Dan McKay on June 30, 2021 at 10:25am — 1 Comment

Tom Saviello, "How's This For Ruining Maine "

LD 1710 "An Act To Require Prompt and Effective Use of the Renewable Energy Resources of Northern Maine "  is the biggest, most expensive boondoggle since the passage of the Expedited Wind Law. It forces the ratepayer to fund a major transmission line, perhaps even longer, larger and far more expensive than the NECEC line and, unlike NECEC which is paid for by Southern New England Electric Utilities, this proposed line will be paid for by ratepayers of investor-owned…
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Added by Dan McKay on June 27, 2021 at 7:33am — 26 Comments

State lawmakers draft plan to unlock northern Maine’s renewable potential

State lawmakers draft plan to unlock northern Maine’s renewable potential

Maine Senate President Troy Jackson is proposing a transmission line to carry wind energy and other generation from northern Aroostook County to New England’s regional electric grid.…
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Added by Dan McKay on April 30, 2021 at 9:28am — 10 Comments

IER Releases Update to Big Green, Inc. Database

IER Releases Update to Big Green, Inc. Database

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Added by Dan McKay on April 9, 2021 at 5:01pm — 4 Comments

Governor Janet Mills To Carbon Tax Electricity

From the CEO of ISO-NE ( New England's regional wholesale electricity market):
March 6, 2020

  "Pricing carbon is the simplest, easiest, and most efficient way to ease this tension and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It could be implemented by state or federal policy, including through the existing Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative structure."  

From the Governor's…
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Added by Dan McKay on October 15, 2020 at 7:47am — 4 Comments

Sierra Club To Kill An Energy Market

COMMENTARY: The Sierra Club says states should leave the organized energy markets if their decisions and recent orders by federal regulators undermine efforts to encourage clean resources and hurt consumers. (Utility Dive)  

Added by Dan McKay on May 6, 2020 at 6:09pm — 2 Comments

Greenbacker makes 15MW Maine gain

A subsidiary of Greenbacker Renewable Energy has bought the rights to build an over 15MW wind farm in the US state of Maine for an undisclosed price.

The 15.3MW RoxWind project has been developed by Palmer Management Corporation and other unnamed parties.

It is contracted to sell electricity through long-term off-take agreements with four local municipal utilities.

RoxWind is expected to come online in the third quarter of 2021.

Sheppard…

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Added by Dan McKay on March 18, 2020 at 10:16am — 5 Comments

Trends in Maine From Introduction of Wind Power

>Added nearly 1000 megawatts of wind 2007 - 2019

Wind Produced 2,450,000 megawatthours 2019…

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Added by Dan McKay on March 15, 2020 at 10:04am — 2 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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