A Message to Philip Bartlett II, Maine and New England Can Have Natural Gas at Price Lowering Electricity Costs
NESCOE which stands for New England States Committee on Electricity and describes itself: "NESCOE is a not-for-profit entity that represents the collective perspective of the six New England Governors in regional electricity matters. NESCOE works on system planning and expansion matters to ensure provision of electricity to consumers at the lowest possible price over the long-term, consistent with maintaining reliable service and environmental quality."
‘Headwind’ To ‘Tailwind’ May 12, 2025
Maybe not a red carpet, but the political winds may now point more in favor of pipeline projects in the region, according to DTM’s Slater.
Slater forecast a fundamental shift in the Northeast energy landscape, particularly with utilities reassessing supply adequacy.
“It feels like we went from a situation a year ago where it felt like we had a headwind that we’re constantly bucking to today,” when “it feels like we actually have a tailwind now around the business,” Slater told analysts. “I think that market area has come to a realization that they are materially short capacity.”
The company recently launched an open season for an expansion of the Millennium Pipeline, which ships gas from DTM’s gathering systems in the Marcellus and Utica shales to Northeast markets.
DTM could repurpose existing capacity and leverage other assets that have synergies with Millennium “to get deeper into that New York and New England market,” Slater said.
Slater said the Millennium open season represents the first step in what could become a larger expansion project, though DTM has not yet included it in its official project backlog. He pointed to peak day send-outs on three of the company's FERC-regulated assets as evidence of growing demand and emerging constraints.
Several factors have also altered the sentiment about natural gas, according to Slater. Renewable builds “haven’t delivered as advertised,” getting canceled, being completed late or at a cost significantly different than originally projected, Slater said. The true impact to reliability from the intermittent resources is also “sinking into the market.”
“The utilities have an obligation to serve. And if there are service challenges in the future, that likely lands – the public sentiment will be with the utilities, and they don’t want to be the ones ‘holding the bag’ on that public sentiment,” Slater said.
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Gordon van Welie, CEO of ISO New England Inc., noted that generation costs are becoming a higher priority for the region during a meeting of the Federal-State Current Issues Collaborative in late April.
New England states strive to balance electricity affordability, reliability and environmental impacts, he said. “Recently, the issue of affordability has been given more emphasis, and the idea of possibly investing in additional gas infrastructure has resurfaced,” van Welie said.
There is no more capacity that can be squeezed out of the pipeline system, van Welie said. “Twenty years worth of cooperation with the interstate gas pipeline folk has, I think, rung out all the efficiencies to be gained in New England at the bulk gas system level.”
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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