CA. Group Pushing Maine PUC to Give in to a New York Group ( LS Power)
Clearway Energy Group
100 California St, Suite 650
San Francisco, CA 94111
clearwayenergygroup.com
December 12, 2023
The Honorable Philip L. Bartlett II, Chairman
The Honorable Patrick Scully, Commissioner
The Honorable Carolyn Gilbert, Commissioner
Office of the Commissioners
Maine Public Utilities Commission
18 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0018
Subject: Transmission Services Agreement Finalization for the Aroostook Renewable
Gateway Project
Dear Chairman Bartlett, Commissioner Scully, and Commissioner Gilbert,
Clearway Energy Group LLC (“Clearway”), the developer of the County Wind project in
Aroostook County, writes to express its support for the successful completion of Transmission
Services Agreements (TSAs) for the LS Power Aroostook Renewable Gateway transmission
project as soon as possible.
Northern Maine wind is the lowest cost clean energy resource available to Maine. Prompt
approval of the Aroostook Renewable Gateway is critical to delivering that low-cost power to the
ratepayers who need it. If the substantial efforts that have led to the development, selection, and
contract negotiations on this transmission line are discarded and the process restarted, Maine
ratepayers will see volatile electricity costs that continue to climb over time, and the region will
unnecessarily continue to miss out on the price suppression, winter reliability, and climate
benefits Northern Maine wind will provide. We urge the Commission to seize the opportunity to
overcome the few final obstacles to unlocking the significant resource in Northern Maine for the
benefit of Maine’s ratepayers and economy. Maine is close to realizing an opportunity not
available to other Northeastern states; failing to contract the awarded transmission line now
would be highly unfortunate and a blow to Maine’s ratepayers and its climate goals......
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Comment by Long Islander on December 15, 2023 at 9:23am
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"failing to contract the awarded transmission line now
would be highly unfortunate and a blow to Maine’s ratepayers and its climate goals......"Its climate goals? Sorry, but for the most part, these are hardly the goals of the people of the state of Maine. In fact they are antithetical to the people's goals of paying their bills, avoiding poverty and enjoying a peaceful way of life. No, the climate goals are those of interlopers from away and their paid off sock puppets in Maine who lie pathologically and care not for the climate, Mainers or anything more than their piggish wallets.
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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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