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ISO-NE Study Shows Need for Dispatchable Generation - Go Figure
ISO-NE: Significant dispatchable resources are a must in a decarbonized grid
Key takeaways
ISO New England worked with the New England states and regional stakeholders to develop…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on August 4, 2022 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments
Farms, Parks and Weasels
With 1200 to 2000 MW planned, Number Nine Wind “Farm” will be bigger than Baxter State “Park” and far and away bigger than any “farm” in New England. Number Nine was huge when first proposed many years ago, but it has since...
...acquired the rights that First Wind had at the King Pine and Horse Mountain project proposals, which are planned for just north of Baxter.
All of these proposed projects have been held in abeyance…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on June 21, 2022 at 12:00pm — 7 Comments
Like Sweeping Dirt Under the Rug
Anyone truly interested in the environment should read this excellent article.
And ask, "when all those non-recyclable turbine blades disintegrate, get replaced and decommissioned, where will the battleship-sized fiberglass-composite corpses be laid to rest?…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on March 19, 2022 at 8:47pm — 3 Comments
Give Us More of Your Money, So We can Give You Back Some of the Money We Already Took
Love the photo here.
Grimly concerned Legislators at a press conference/photo op.
Responding to the proverbial fire alarm, wailing "The people need to think we're DOING something!"
Best thing they could do is stay out of energy policy.…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on March 9, 2022 at 5:23pm — 4 Comments
Call for a Generac Quote, Wait til Next Year
Robert Bryce again succinctly identifies an energy malfunction in America.
The grid is failing because of public policy choices.
If you aren't rich, you probably don't have a generator.
If you don't have a generator, you're stuck.…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on February 11, 2022 at 9:57pm — 4 Comments
New Maine Public Advocate Picks Up Where Predecessors Left Off
Maine's Public Advocate (PA) has one mission: fight like hell for electric ratepayers.
The ratepayer watchdog is appointed by the governor and approved by the legislature, but he (or she) has a term that does not run concurrent with the governor. The PA is intended to have one master: us.
Bill Harwood was sworn in last week as the latest PA. Based on this…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on February 9, 2022 at 7:22pm — 6 Comments
A Good Post-Mortem on November's Corridor Debacle
Gotta love nuclear power. But NextEra also owns gas and oil generation in addition to Seabrook. They all hate Canadian Hydropower.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/war-between-energy-titans-could-shape-new-england-climate/
....For five years, two of the world’s largest power companies have been locked in an all-out battle over the future of New England’s electric grid. The…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on January 19, 2022 at 8:00pm — 5 Comments
Same Snake, Different Oil
Wind Warriors will remember the circus that was Eolian Renewables.
Eolian was a zero-experience fly by night barnstorming rent seeking outfit, led by ringleader and chief snake oil salesman Jack Kenworthy.
The tenacious towns of Orland and Frankfort finally sent the would-be wind developer scurrying away, but it took several divisive…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on January 4, 2022 at 2:00pm — 7 Comments
These Maine Legislators Are Idiots
They affirmatively tell Massachusetts that they'd rather have a power line as big as NECEC, PLUS a thousand 50-story wind turbines in "pristine Maine Wilderness" that only work 2 days out of 7.
Sorry to use such a harsh term as "idiots" but that's the only word that fits. …
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on November 23, 2021 at 7:48pm — 2 Comments
Huge Clean Energy RFP Issued Today by Maine PUC
And this one is a double-wammy!
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Wind developers are high-fiving today. An RFP was issued this morning by the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for a legislature-mandated transmission corridor that seeks to bridge the gap between Aroostook and the New England grid. While this is momentous, it’s not merely another transmission corridor case. This 12 month RFP…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on November 16, 2021 at 2:49pm — 9 Comments
Research Research Research
While offshore wind has been working (part time) for many years, Maine continues to overthink how to make it work.
Readers Digest version: erect your turbines and wait for the wind to…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on October 1, 2021 at 6:41pm — 9 Comments
Rural Mainers Finally Count?
Governor Mills has signed a bill that should have been included in the Expedited Wind Act over a decade ago.
An Act To Require Consideration of Climate Impacts by the Public Utilities Commission and To Incorporate Equity Considerations in Decision Making by State Agencies
The new law is intended to balance the power between energy developers and regular citizens who are essentially defenseless. "Equity" is a popular word these days, but it hasn't…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on June 19, 2021 at 10:00am — 4 Comments
Another Good Piece by Robert Bryce
250 times more tax credit than nuclear gets, although nuclear produces five times more clean energy.
Funny how Congress called it the "Investment" tax credit. Anyone who puts (our) money in an "investment" that has such a backward ROI isn't a very good investor. …
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on December 28, 2020 at 11:30am — 1 Comment
Informative Article on Nuclear Power
Bill Gates continues to advocate for clean energy.
Added by Art Brigades on October 29, 2020 at 1:55pm — 1 Comment
Comment Opportunity Today - Governor's Energy Office
Deadline today. Take the survey.
Well-informed, empirical, non-unicorn comments are needed:
September 11, 2020
The Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) and Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) are required to develop a plan to identify pathways and strategies for advancing Maine’s clean energy economy (ie: education, training, workforce, etc). The GEO and GOPIF want to hear directly…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on September 11, 2020 at 1:36pm — No Comments
Urgent Deadline August 22
The Maine Climate Council is taking suggestions.
Take their survey before end of the day Saturday, August 22.
They actually are allowing written replies to questions. They need a good dose of reality (the kind of thoughtful, fact-based info found right here on the Citizens Task Force Blog) before they start making their policy recommendations to the governor and legislature. Without our critical thinking, they…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on August 21, 2020 at 4:07pm — No Comments
Comment Opportunity - Big Wind Wakes from Hibernation
Here they go again. Just when you thought Big Wind had thrown in the towel (in Maine).
Just when you thought they can no longer compete.
Just when everybody and his uncle is making more sensible energy decisions.
Big Wind is Back in Maine.
Despite their insidious lobbying efforts, Big Wind's PTC got left out of the…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on April 7, 2020 at 10:30pm — 5 Comments
Skullduggery in Augusta this Morning
As legislators got to their desks an hour ago, they received a piece of legislation which would order the PUC to reverse its decision that granted a “certificate” to the NECEC.
This is even more brazen than the Wind Act.
Added by Art Brigades on March 17, 2020 at 11:30am — 7 Comments
So much more energy, and more electricity. Impossible without nukes at the very least.
We were taught in grade school (and we laughed at) how primitive people thought the earth was flat until a bold Italian sailor proved otherwise. Today's primitive thinkers want a rapidly developing world to reach carbon neutrality using tools the equivalent of the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria...
This report is a stunner. If the EIA is even close to correct in this prognostication, and if fossil fuels are somehow off the table, how can civilization advance?
Lots of…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on October 1, 2019 at 2:00pm — 7 Comments
AMC Now Full Members of the AEC
When you click on the below link you'll see in the top picture a gathering of interested parties at the RPS/Climate change bill-signing.
That's Beth O'Hearn (teal dress) from League of Conservation Voters, which is the overarching organization for the Airhead Enviro Cabal (LCV, NRCM, Sierra, Audubon, Environment Maine, et al). Over her shoulder in Maroon/white is Katelyn Bernard, the lobbyist for the Appalachian Mountain Club, which for a few years had…
ContinueAdded by Art Brigades on June 27, 2019 at 11:00am — 2 Comments
Latest Blog Posts
- ISO-NE Study Shows Need for Dispatchable Generation - Go Figure
- Farms, Parks and Weasels
- Like Sweeping Dirt Under the Rug
- Give Us More of Your Money, So We can Give You Back Some of the Money We Already Took
- Call for a Generac Quote, Wait til Next Year
- New Maine Public Advocate Picks Up Where Predecessors Left Off
- A Good Post-Mortem on November's Corridor Debacle
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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
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(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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