After Billions of Dollars Spent by the State, How are Your Energy Bills Doing Now?

 July 3, 2009
 
      Governor John Baldacci. “The energy efficiency component in weatherization is huge; this bill has a 20-time increase in weatherization. We will weatherize 100 percent of homes and 50 percent of businesses by 2030.
 
   The Efficiency Maine Trust and Board will be designed to organize the state’s numerous energy-related programs together under one roof and launch an unprecedented effort to transition Maine’s economy from its dependence on oil to alternative energy sources.
 
   “We’re thrilled that the committee has developed a bill that sets the stage as to how we will handle the state’s energy needs in the future,” said Rep. Jon Hicks, who sat on the committee that incorporated six bills into this comprehensive plan that is now law. “It prepares us to help develop more green energy jobs.”
 
   “Maine’s future economy is closely tied to what we do with energy. How we handle energy and conserve it will make sure Maine people pay as little as necessary in order to meet their needs at work and at home". said Dick Davis, the state’s public advocate.
 
    The new energy law sets aggressive goals to end Maine’s economy-draining dependency on foreign fuels.

• Weatherize all residences and 50 percent of businesses by 2030.
• Reduce peak electric energy consumption by 100 megawatts by 2020.
• Reduce the state’s consumption of liquid fossil fuels by at least 30 percent by 2030.
• Build private-sector jobs in clean energy businesses.
• Reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
• Achieve reductions in usage of electricity and natural gas by 2020.

   

Senate Majority Leader Philip Bartlett, who co-chaired the committee, said, “The bill puts in place a roadmap to achieve energy independence in the state.”

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Comment by Willem Post on October 11, 2022 at 7:54am

VOTE, IN PERSON, AND EN MASSE, AGAINST ALL DEM/PROGS IS THE ONLY SOLUTION IN NOVEMBER 2022 to finally end all this climate scare- mongering BS

 

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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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