Maine elites with climate catastrophobia  have identified offshore wind as a key component of reaching clean energy goals, which include using 80% renewable energy by 2030, with the intention of reaching 100% by 2040.
 
What does it mean to reach renewable energy goals?
 
First, what does Maine define as renewable energy?
Renewable energy is confined to certain types of electrical generation, i.e.  fuel cells; tidal power; solar arrays and installations; wind power installations; geothermal installations; hydroelectric generators that meet all state and federal fish passage requirement; or biomass generators, including generators fueled by landfill gas.
How does Maine track the renewable energy goals?
The goals are established by the purchases of renewable energy certificates that renewable energy electrical generators receive.
How much renewable energy is made in Maine?
Maine has renewable generators. In fact, Maine has enough renewable generators that receive renewable energy certificates that the renewable energy goals are presently achievable.
Why isn't Maine at 100% renewable right now? 
But Maine climate catastrophobics  want a market that buys and sells renewable energy certificates. They say it provides cash incentives to pay for more renewable development. Cash that comes out of the electric bills paid by electric customers.
This market offers renewable energy certificates to the highest bids which means they represent a regressive impact on ratepayers. Higher bids mean higher costs passed to the ratepayers.
How can Maine reach 100% renewable and terminate the renewable energy certificate market?
If Maine simply retired renewable energy certificates as they are produced by Maine renewable generators instead of offering them to a cash market that has many, larger, out of state bidders, Maine ratepayers would save on energy bills (which can add 5 cents per kilowatt hour to rates) plus the renewable energy goals would be reached. 
Catastrophe Over.

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Comment by Dan McKay on March 1, 2024 at 10:28am

Maine is unique. Not only is there enough renewable generation to supply electrical needs (As long as everything times out right), but there is also enough gas and oil plants by themselves to supply Maine's needs, and with NECEC, there will be more than enough imported energy from Canada too.

 

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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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