A Rigged System and a "PLAN" to Stabilize Electricity Prices Loses Traction
Democrats tell us all the time that the replacement of fossil fuel electrical generating plants with solar/wind/batteries will stabilize electricity prices and, in the long run, will lower electricity bills.I wish they would tell us how charging natural gas plants for carbon dioxide emissions is a good way to stabilize prices. The program that establishes these charges are designed to increase the penalty by annually lowering the emissions allowed, which, basically lowers allowable production. Lower production means lower revenue and causes plants to compete for fewer and fewer available emission allowances and shortages breed higher prices. These emission allowance costs are added to production costs. Subsequently, natural gas plants must bid their supply to the grid to include the ever increasing emission charges. Natural gas plants receive part of their revenue by bidding their supply into the New England wholesale market, which is operated by ISO-NE. Natural gas plants base their bids on real figures, unlike solar, wind and battery plants that receive immense subsidies and can, therefore, enter bids into the wholesale market low enough to be selected to provide supply. ISO-NE selects bids begining with the lowest offer up to the offer that will match the required amount that the grid demands. The system is rigged to assure solar, wind and batteries(SWB) have guaranteed entrance to the grid.So, when does this rigged system bring about stabilized electricity prices? Does SWB require subsidies to continue in order to reach so-called stabilization? What will be the "Stabilized Price"?
Democrats are starting to realize that their "PLAN" is not going to work and they say it is the electricity customer's fault. You can't be using electricity whenever you want and expect prices to stabilize. After all there is not enough public will to see this "PLAN" through to the end, nor enough money in the household budget to afford it.In Europe, a proposed change in the "PLAN" is for electricity consumers to change their habits to match wind and solar production periods. We are not there yet, but it is coming.
Senate candidate Troy Jackson wants the "PLAN" to include Aroostook County and is willing to spend $3.8 billion dollars of Maine and other New England state ratepayers' money to "Get Er Done". $3.8 billion dollars to effectively add about 400 megawatts to the New England grid. He dreams of the day Maine is the Saudi Arabia of wind and the State of Maine moves to take over the ownership of CMP and Versant.
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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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