Can I Get a Whole Home, Small Modular Nuclear Generator.
ISO-NE has a blueprint based on appeasing the climate alarmists making state policies. Their duties have been hijacked and soon, everyone in New England might have to prepare to go on their own, because running a 24/7 propane or diesel residential generator will be cheaper than buying power from utilities.
New England’s electric power grid is undergoing a tremendous transformation. Public policy aimed at fighting climate change by decarbonizing all sectors of the economy is ushering in a new era in our energy history. This era will be marked by rapid and significant change. Over the next 20 years, we expect that renewable resources will displace natural gas as the main source of electricity generation in the region—just as natural gas displaced coal and oil generation beginning 20 years ago.
Just seven years ago, power plants fueled by natural gas represented nearly half the capacity of proposals in the ISO Interconnection Request Queue. Today, wind and solar generation and storage (primarily short-duration batteries) account for more than 99%.
Public policy drives decarbonization
State goals and requirements are targeting deep reductions in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, as well as increases in renewable energy. These public policies represent the power system’s largest catalyst for change.
Electrifying the heating and transportation sectors, to reduce emissions from buildings and vehicles that have historically burned fossil fuels, will result in a significant increase in electricity demand. Massive amounts of clean, reliable power must be available to meet it.
Over the next 15 years, the region needs to add almost twice as much new generation as it added in the last 25 years. By the early 2030s, the annual energy needed to heat buildings and charge electric vehicles is expected to grow to more than 20 times the forecast for 2024. The growth over the next decade is just the beginning.
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Comment by Dan McKay 2 hours ago
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Penny, you are succinctly describing the severity of the damage ahead if the pursuit for carbon zero doesn't end and end soon. In Maine, we have "Home Rule" where we as a town, or a regional community network can institute ordinances that would provide relief from cruel and unusual state laws. A SMR, local hydro plant, a small natural gas plant, a biomass plant are all good, baseload and dispatchable electricity producers.
If we can't even count on the experts of ISO-NE to defend us from unreasonable policies that will not work and they know they will not work, it is time for organized, radical action. As I say, we are on our own, now.
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Comment by Penny Gray 2 hours ago
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Better stock up on candles and oil lamps.
Maine as Third World Country:
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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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