Maine again looks north for onshore wind, but full grid integration will have to wait
Consider the source when reading. The second paragraph includes the standard total BS claim about powering X # of homes. (They don't tell you that's a fake theoretical number never attained which means ZERO homes can be powered.) The third paragraph states "Maine has been trying for years to build new renewable generation in its most remote northern counties, Aroostook and Washington, an area with enormous potential wind...." (No, not Maine, just really a handful of insiders hoping to exploit taxpayer and ratepayer funded giveaways and an uninformed population courtesy of the lying media. Also, look at a wind map of the U.S. and it immediately becomes clear that northern Maine's wind "resources" are anything but enormous.)
Maine again looks north for onshore wind, but full grid integration will have to wait
President Trump’s antipathy for wind power is only one obstacle the proposal must overcome. Another involves who will benefit from the project in far northern Maine, where the power will be generated but not used.
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Comment by Dan McKay 8 hours ago
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Jack Shapiro lies again. Wind and solar get on the grid because they receive out of markets payments through renewable energy credits and investment tax credits. To get these credits they must find a way to get their output to the grid. They bid very obnoxiously low. ISO-NE has shown that these subsidies far exceed the capex costs of wind and solar so they can bid obnoxiously low. They get their output on the grid which provides them additional money. Natural gas, because it is dispatchable generally sets the market price and is pretty much the only resource that places a legitimate bid to the "stack".
Jack will not tell you that wind and solar also gets a payment that natural gas has to include in "stack" production costs due to expensive carbon dioxide costs from the RGGI program.
Jack, as you know, natural gas is able to backstop wind and solar. Can you say the same for solar and wind backstopping natural gas? It looks like oil is backstopping pipeline constrained natural gas at the moment.
A legitimate EUT Committee would forbid Jack from Public Hearings for his lies.
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Can you say Cabal?
“The directive is clear to get this line built. That is what the legislature wants to see. And we feel like we have flexibility in how to do that to maximize the benefit for Maine consumers,” Bartlett said.
Bartlett is not only PUC Chairman, he is Maine's NESCOE Manager. NESCOE strong armed ISO-NE into upgrading a transmission line that will cost at least a billion dollars. Janet Mills appointed Bartlett to both positions.
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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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