About as Corrupt as the Government Gets.

Is ISO-NE really technology-neutral as they proclaim they are? Building a transmission line solely to entertain a wind project in an area that is not even in the ISO-NE service area does not seem to meet the technology-neutral definition. Quite the contrary, this is outright favoritism and an abrupt turnabout for a grid operator that touts itself as competition protector. It appears more of a complete surrender to NESCOE ( New England States Committee on Electricity), an agency that describes itself as " A Board of Directors representing the six New England states directs NESCOE's affairs and engagement in regional issues. Each Governor appoints the state's NESCOE Manager. Regardless of the number of individuals each Governor appoints as a NESCOE Manager, each state has one undivided vote in arriving at NESCOE determinations"
Governor appointments! One person appointing an individual to advance partisan policies. Who did Governor Mills appoint to "engage in regional issues"? as NESCOE Manager, Philip L. Bartlett II, a Democrat who was appointed to the Maine Public Utilities Commission in June 2019 by Governor Janet Mills. Prior to his appointment, he practiced law with Stacia, Bartlett & Chabot. He also served in the Maine Senate from 2004 to 2012 and was elected by his peers to serve as Senate Majority Leader from 2008 to 2010. Bartlett chaired the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee as well as the Joint Select Committee on Maine’s Energy Future 
 
The New England grid is not being run by an Independent System Operator. There is nothing Independent about a so-called technology-neutral agency that bows to another agency that has no intention to be technology-neutral. This is about as corrupt as the government gets. 
 
So, as Maine could be staring at a multi million dollar increase in rates pushed forward by this secretive allegiance that dictates its ideology must overturn competitive market principles, is there any wonder that New Hampshire, who refuses to support this wind project, is conducting a study to seek removal from ISO-NE?

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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."

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