Cold weather updates: Week of January 23, 2026 - ISO Newswire
The battle is on. To hell with carbon dioxide. To hell with the renewables. To hell with RGGI. The grid operators fight back
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Comment by Dan McKay 33 minutes ago
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You are spot on, Willem, ISO-NE is shirking their responsibility as the operator in charge of the grid and development of generation resources that are abundant, reliable and avoids the very issues being experienced during this moderate cold snap.Every year, prior to legislative sessions, their representatives will appear either in person or via zoom to explain to lawmakers how they prepare the grid for hourly, daily, weekly and triannually to achieve their mission of grid stability and reasonable prices to consumers. Every year they duck the problems associated with state government derived policies that favor wind, solar and battery storage. They leave the uneducated legislators believing that ISO-NE will, because of their super engineering abilities, accommodate all the wind, solar and battery storage that the lawmakers can throw at them.ISO-NE needs to grow up and tell these State Leaders that their renewable policies are destroying the grid, but they are cowards.Instead, ISO-NE kowtows to knuckleheads like Philip Bartlett, who would have them build out transmission along the entire north-south length of Maine for useless wind power, using a cabal of New England blue states, aka NESCOE, to backdoor this project out of sight of ratepayers who are being asked to pay billions for it.
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Comment by Willem Post 49 minutes ago
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Spineless, woke ISO-NE created the disaster conditions decades ago, and now is begging the FERC for permission to deal with the disaster!!
Mass is importing very expensive RUSSIAN LNG, which a French LNG carrier equipped with an ice beaker hull to get the LNG from Russian Arctic ports to Boston, where the LNG is regasified and distributed in pipelines.
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The ISO-NE debased itself by shamefully kowtowing for decades to the inane whims of woke, entrenched, self-serving bureaucrats in RI, Mass and Conn by favoring wind and solar over abundant, low-cost, ultra-clean, domestic gas and nuclear, that produce plentiful, steady, low-cost electricity, for many decades, that supports the grid, regardless of cold and cloudy/snowy weather, whereas environmentally damaging, expensive, foreign-supplied offshore wind and solar are hopelessly DEPENDENT on the weather.
There is no wind and solar panels are covered with a foot of snow for days!!
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
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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