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"Patrick Drupp, the Sierra Club’s climate policy director, said poor housing stock and financial barriers to clean-energy technologies contribute to the cost."

“Clean energy is obviously the fastest and cheapest form of energy,” Drupp said. “Bringing it on-grid as fast as possible would be one of the biggest things you could do to lower electricity prices for people.”

The entire report:  …

SSP5-8.5: Garbage In, Scare-mongering out Out

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/ssp5-8-5-garbage-in-scare-mongering-out

By Willis Eschenbach

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You might have read about RCP8.5, which is now called SSP5-8.5. It…

“THE U.S. HAS 3X MORE IMMIGRANTS THAN ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON EARTH,” Layoff Hedge said in another post. “1 of 6 immigrants on the planet live here. No other major developed nation comes close. The outcome is clear: the U.S. absorbs a disproportionate share of global migration & ~9/10 new jobs go to them right now.”

According to…

Currently 8500 megawatts of New England natural gas plant output at wholesale cost of 4 cents per kilowatt, unincumbered by heating demand, is feeding the New England grid. 

With expanded pipeline capaicity to provide for winter heating and electricity production, simutaneously, electric prices would fall like a rock in New England.…

By Libby Palanza

June 5, 2026

Led by New York attorney general Letitia James, the complaint argues that the multi-million dollar deal between TotalEnergies and the Trump Administration “threatens to erase over a thousand union jobs and cheat millions of New Yorkers out of clean, affordable energy.”

Last March, the federal government…

ISO-NE reports 2025 electricity costs soar due to political conditions that kept needed natural gas from generation plants, the expanding RGGI carbon dioxide tax and the out of control growth of solar esasperating depleted "flexible, dispatchable resources"

" Higher natural gas prices were the principal driver of increased wholesale costs, rising 105% year over-year to $6.27/MMBtu…

HIGH COST OF SOLAR ELECTRICITY PER kWh

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/high-cost-of-solar-electricity-per-kwh

By Willem Post

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The video linked below shows, among other things, a comparison between the

Blevin Solar Complex in Texas, a 270 MW solar complex covers…

Germany’s Ecological Holocaust… Once Fairy Tale Forests Getting Cleared for Wind Turbines

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/germany-s-ecological-holocaust-once-fairy-tale-forests-getting-2

By P Gosselin…

• Supply costs are inclusive of certain State energy policies, such as the Renewable Portfolio Standard (RECs) and the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative( A Carbon Dioxide Tax that raises supply costs…

HIGH COST OF OFFSHORE WIND ELECTRICITY PER kWh.

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/high-cost-of-offshore-wind-electricity-per-kwh

by Willem Post

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The reason costs are ballooning is…

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

Request for Proposals for Renewable

Energy Generation and Transmission

Projects Pursuant to the Northern Maine

Renewable Energy Development…

It's about transparency:

The Maine PUC is not transparent!

Nirav Shah says he would issue these 6 executive orders if elected governor

He proposed six executive orders he would issue on Day One if elected the next governor of Maine, icluding:

“Modernizing Maine’s Grid and Lowering Energy Costs” — Would “identify the grid bottlenecks delaying housing, business growth, and clean energy projects; build on Maine’s storm resilience work; and create a public utility scoreboard to…

By Ted Cohen

May 25, 2026

The state’s leading northern-Maine paper’s annual report shows an anemic following – far behind The Maine Wire – despite an advantage in legacy and workforce size.

Graham Pollard, who is The Maine Wire’s digital media editor, compared Bangor Daily News’ readership to the Wire’s.

Pollard’s source for Bangor’s following comes…

The Robbins Mill fire was a real tragedy, but the Maine PUC intentionally negotiated a contract between CMP and the mill for biomass to electricity production that they knew would cost CMP customers millions of dollars. In fact, over the last 7 years CMP customers have paid over $30 million dollars to the mill. Add Renewable Energy Credits and the cost grows by an additional $7 million dollars.

The biomass plant is gone and the badly associated…

Translation: "Let's give more money to the green energy shysters on Wall Street dummies".

A new analysis from two pro-clean energy groups suggests that publicly financing high-voltage power lines in New England could save electric…

May 23, 2026

by Selwyn Duke

In 2020, journalist Matthew Yglesias insisted we use increased immigration to grow the U.S. population to one billion. Our current 343-million number is insufficient to compete with a future China and India, his theory goes. Yet before we MACA — “Make America China Already!” — we should first ask a question:

“What’s So Bad About a Stable Population?”

Doing just that Tuesday is columnist Froma Harrop. Writing at…

By Tina Fischer

May 21, 2026

Central Maine Power opened a new switching station at the Rock Row development in Westbrook.

The compact gas-insulated switchgear facility serves to “link” multiple transmission lines together, to provide service continuity during extreme weather events.

Should one line be damaged in a storm, the facility’s smart technology can remotely “move” customers from one line to the other, providing a backup route for power to reach…