36 years of paying Net Energy Billing Costs Must End and Reparations Established.

The EUT Committee members now know that Net Energy Billing is unconstitutional. Not one member argued otherwise when they were informed during the public hearing for LD 32, An Act to Repeal Net Energy Billing. 

As an unconstitutional law, an effort to sue for reparations is possible. 
Considering 720,000 electricity customers do not participate in NEB but do pay to keep this program intact and considering the 113,000 customers who do participate, and this number is growing, the costs will go up rapidly.
Considering that this program already has a 16-year history and projects with 20-year contracts are being made right now, we are talking about a 36-year period of payments by non-participants while participants reap benefits from these payments.
Considering the large rate class numbers only 227 sounds like they would be ineffective for support of a lawsuit. What must be considered is that this class consumes 20% of all Maine load. Where 833,000 customers pay 80%, the large rate class pays 20% among just 227 customers. Those 227 customers pay a much larger bill than the customers of the small and medium rate class and were suddenly exposed to these costs just 2 years ago after NEB had grown to huge proportions. Several business owners representing this large class expressed disappointment and some expressed outrage about the extraordinary burden they were paying in NEB costs. We heard about electric costs going up 700%! 
During the hearing, I suggested reparations were due and a $89 per month to NEB participants would, at least, erase the charge to non-participants going forward.
I do not think customers who have been taken for a ride for 16 years are feeling it is right to continue having to pay for 20 more years, and, if NEB is not repealed, for even longer.
It may require a class action lawsuit to stop this madness, and we have the numbers.

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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

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"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."

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