Construction commences on Maine's largest solar project

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Comment by Dan McKay on November 19, 2022 at 5:34am

Willem, "Using a long-term Power Purchase Agreement, EDF Energy services will secure the total output from the project. The renewable energy generated by the project will be used by EDF Energy Services to serve its corporate customer base in New England. The PPA sets a record, as the largest corporate PPA ever signed in the New England power grid."

 

EDF Energy makes money, Longroad Energy makes money, corporate purchasers get a reduction on their electric costs.

It's net energy billing on steroids.

 

This is the result of the New England electric generation market replacing the good eggs with rotten eggs inflating the clearinghouse price to stratospheric heights.

 

Wind and solar have manipulated the market to the point that plants with base load and/or "on demand" dispatch characteristics are dwindling. Shortage of the good eggs creates higher prices, higher prices invite more politically favored wind and solar to scoop up profits on the backs of ratepayers. It is a spreading epidemic of greed.

 

The media, Like BDN, megaphones the spread of the epidemic with lies that more rapid deployment of wind and solar will bring down costs while simultaneously providing baseload and: on demand" power.

 

The renewable era is crumbling as the truth comes forward, which the Maine people see clearly, but the Maine Government remains either blind or paralyzed by their own "warm, fuzzy feel good, planet saving" misadventures in energy disciplines.

 

Wake up, Augusta, you are destroying Maine one kilowatt at a time.

Comment by Long Islander on November 18, 2022 at 11:09pm

Another year of rising electricity costs shows need to diversify supply - by The BDN Editorial Board
..................The governor, and lawmakers, have approved significant investments in renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, and in switching cars and homes away from fossil fuels to electricity. But, the transition to renewable energy is slow and there is opposition to large projects that would increase the state’s supply of cleaner energy. The rejection by voters of CMP’s transmission line across western Maine is one example.

The PUC has given initial approval to an early phase of a project that would bring wind energy generated in Aroostook County into the region’s power grid, but that project is years from fruition.

If and when this and other renewable energy projects come online, electricity supply costs will come down, Barlett said.

That, of course, doesn’t help Mainers who will be facing bigger electricity bills this winter.

Mills said she has directed her administration “to examine every solution possible to this crisis.” She also said her administration is preparing legislation that will include ways to help Mainers deal with high energy costs for consideration by lawmakers next month.

“We must ensure that Maine people have support and security to heat their homes and keep themselves and their families safe,” the governor said.

The new Legislature, which will be sworn in next month, must focus both on short-term ways to help Mainers pay their energy bills this winter and speeding up the diversification of the state’s energy supply for the long run.

https://www.bangordailynews.com/2022/11/18/opinion/editorials/anoth...

Comment by Willem Post on November 18, 2022 at 8:25am

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