Correcting AWEA's 2015 Spin


The American Wind Energy Association (‘AWEA’) claims big wind had a spectacular 2015, but we looked past the slick advertising and found the same boastful AWEA rhetoric, this time with extra pixie dust applied.

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Comment by Barbara Durkin on April 21, 2016 at 10:33pm

The 1997 AWEA Wind Energy Weekly also mentions Italian Vento Power Corporation and Brian Caffyn building IVPC projects in Italy.  As most, here, know the Director of IVPC is Oreste Vigorito.  Oreste was Brian's next door neighbor in Italy for 7 years according to Caffyn's ex wife. 

This is just too rich...

Monday, November 16, 2009

A Lot of Hot Air

Over the last two weeks, a number of significant arrests have been made of those involved in the wind-power industry. The most high profile of these was the arrest of Oreste Vigorito, head of the IVPC Energy Company and president of Italy’s National Association of Wind Energy. The charge is fraud. Vito Nicastri, a Sicilian business associate of Vigorito, was arrested in Alcamo, Sicily. Two other men were arrested in Sicily and the Naples area, while 11 others were charged but not arrested..."

http://themurgatroydblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/lot-of-hot-air.html

And most know that following these arrests came the largest-ever Mafia asset seizure in history.  And this was for wind energy fraud in order to obtain public subsidies, by affiliates of Brian Caffyn founder of UPC and First Wind. 

You can't make this stuff up. 

Comment by Barbara Durkin on April 21, 2016 at 10:20pm

If the AWEA 1997 Wind Energy Weekly makes you sick, Penny, this should make you furious.  Sorry-

Note that the 1997 AWEA BS Wind Energy Weekly announced "vertical axis wind turbine" company FloWind Corp., of California, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  They couldn't sell their wind plant, couldn't sell their space junk and had difficulty repowering Altamont and Tehachapi.  

Now please examine "vertical axis wind turbine" manufacturer FloDesign Inc., AND FlowDesign Wind Turbine Corp., a California and Massachusetts Foreign Corporation(s) with a name change during November of 2013 to “Ogin Inc.” based in the Netherlands; and, New Dimension Energy Company, LLC (NDEC) a California Foreign Limited Liability Company (LLC) with address as 221 Crescent St Ste 103a Waltham, MA 02453. New Dimension Energy Company, LLC is a subsidiary of Ogin, Inc.

My research shows two federal stimulus (exact sums) of $8,325,400 awards to two different Congressional Districts, to two versions of FloWind, each having a separate DUNS (company ID) number.  

MassCEC also granted FloDesign $3 million while Ian Bowles served as Advisor to FloDesign and as Executive Secretary of Energy and Environment and as Founding and Acting Chairman of the MassCEC under the MA Deval Patrick Administration. 

During 2010, Ian Bowles, Founding Chairman and Acting Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, granted FloDesign $3 million, including a 5-year $700,000 forgivable loan, and $1.7 million from MassCEC’s Renewable Energy Trust that later morphed to MassCEC.

So, bankrupt CA FloWind verticle axis turbine co. 1997, appears to have morphed to CA Flo-Wind and CA Flo-Design returning to Altamont. 

Recall that New Dimension Energy Company, LLC, is a CALIFORNIA FOREIGN LIMITED-LIABILITY COMPANY and a subsidiary of Ogin, Inc.

Alphabiota Environmental Consulting, LLC (AEC) understands that New Dimension

Energy Company (NDEC, Project Applicant) is proposing the repower of wind energy

facility within the Alameda County portion of the Altamont Pass Wind Resource Area

(APWRA)

http://www.altamontsrc.org/alt_doc/deir/App_D_Spring-2013_BotSurvey...

BACK TO ENRON-

Flo-Design CFO Matthew Commons held several positions at Enron. 

Matthew Commons

CFO, FloDesign Wind Turbine Corp
Wind Power Panelist

Matthew Commons is Chief Financial Officer for FloDesign Wind Turbine Corp., which manufactures high efficiency utility-scale shrouded wind turbines. He is responsible for financial management, business development and strategic planning. He has worked with renewable technologies since 2001 in positions at Enron, American Electric Power, LS Power Equity Advisors and The NorthBridge Group. His experience includes development, financing, and power sales agreements for over 500 MW of wind resources.

http://greenovationconference.com/conference-info/speaker_bios.cfm

From Matthew Commons’ Twitter acct- (They're laughing at us!)

Matthew Commons @matthew_commons  ·  13 May 2010

FloDesign Wind Turbine Hong Kong Limited is now open for business! Enjoying a beer in Lan Kwai Fong to celebrate.

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Matthew Commons @matthew_commons  ·  11 May 2010

Just received my official name in Chinese characters. The direct translation is "healthy energetic success"!

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https://twitter.com/matthew_commons

FloWind now OGIN gets another bite at the apple!

Since 2010, MassCEC has provided over $2.3 million in matching funds to seven Massachusetts-based ARPA-E awardees, including 1366 Technologies, Ogin, FastCAP, MIT and INFINIUM. Awardees have gone on to raise more than $290 million in additional funding, and hire more than 280 employees.

http://www.masscec.com/

While Ogin Intellectual Property U.S. CITIZENS PAID FOR is listed in the “Official Gazette of the Montenegrin Intellectual Property Office’ 2014/15. http://www.ziscg.me/doc/Glasnik_15.pdf

 

[Note:  “Montenegrins” Wikipedia:  (Montenegrin and Serbian: Црногорци / Crnogorci, pronounced [tsr̩nǒɡoːrtsi] or [tsr̩noɡǒːrtsi]) are a nation and South Slavic people mainly living in the Balkans, primarily inhabiting Montenegro. Bigger migrant communities exist in Turkey and smaller migrant communities exist in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, and the Republic of Macedonia.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montenegrins

 

Ogin Energy Website: http://www.oginenergy.com

Ogin (of Denmark) provides Flo-Design (CEO) Matthew Common’s Email @ FloDesign Wind Turbine FDWT: mcommons@fdwt.com  and provides the company address as: 

Papirfabrikken 28
8600 Silkeborg
8600
Denmark

http://www.renewableuk.com/en/membership/member-directory.cfm/compa...

http://visulate.com/rental/visulate_search.php?CORP_ID=N14000005929

 

Comment by Penny Gray on April 21, 2016 at 7:30pm

Wow Barbara Durkin, it was a mistake to read your post just before supper. Made me sick to my stomach. But that bunch of AWEA bullshit is the best yet.

"It has been clear to us for a long time that 
Vermonters want clean energy, and they appreciate the 
investment in indigenous resources.  This facility is one of 
the most cost-effective ways of generating clean energy 
right here in Vermont," Mr. Hyde said. and blah blah blah blah blah...it goes downhill from there.

Comment by Barbara Durkin on April 21, 2016 at 1:23pm

One of my favorite finds in researching wind energy is this one.  Take a look back at the AWEA mind-set almost 20 years ago:

Subject:     Wind Energy Weekly #754
Sent:        10/3/97 12:47 PM
Received:    10/4/97 7:54 AM
From:        Tom Gray, tomgray@igc.apc.org
To:          Recipients of conference, mlist.windnews@conf.igc.apc.org
 
The following is the electronic edition of WIND ENERGY            
WEEKLY, Vol. 16, #754, 7 July 1997, published by the          
American Wind Energy Association.  The full text of the            
WEEKLY is available in hardcopy form for $595/year and is            
recommended for those with a serious commercial interest in            
wind energy (the electronic edition is lagged by several            
weeks and contains only excerpts).  A monthly hardcopy            
publication, the WINDLETTER, more suitable for those            
interested in residential wind systems is included with a             
$50/year contribution to the Association.  AWEA's            
goal is to promote wind energy as a clean and            
environmentally-superior source of electricity--please            
help us with this critical environmental issue.  For more 
information on the Association, contact            
AWEA, 122 C Street, NW, 4th Floor, Washington, DC 20001,            
USA, phone (202) 383-2500, fax (202) 383-2505, e-mail            
<windmail@mcimail.com>.  Or visit our World Wide Web             
site at a href="http://www.econet.org/awea>" target="_blank">http://www.econet.org/awea>;.            
            
ENERGY OUTLOOK
 
Karas outlines potential for wind growth
 
TRADE NEWS
 
GMP makes news in VT and CA
FloWind Corp. seeks protection from creditors
David Freeman named new head of LADWP
NSP receives permission to build outside MN
Italian Vento plans 170-plus MW in Italy
 
 
GREEN MOUNTAIN OPENS WIND
FARM, FILES IN CALIFORNIA
 
        Green Mountain Power Co. (GMP), of South Burlington, 
Vt., had a busy week in support of renewables, announcing 
the commercial opening of its first wind farm and 
registering a subsidiary with the California Public 
Utilities Commission as an electricity provider under the 
state's new retail competition law.
 
        The 11-turbine wind generating station in Searsburg, 
Vt., formally began commercial operations June 30, producing 
enough clean energy to supply approximately 2,000 homes. The 
6-MW facility is the largest commercial wind generating 
station in the eastern United States.
   
        "We've been looking forward to this moment for almost 
20 years," said Douglas G. Hyde, President and Chief 
Executive Officer of GMP. GMP has researched the potential 
of wind energy in harsh northern climates since the late 
1970s. "It has been clear to us for a long time that 
Vermonters want clean energy, and they appreciate the 
investment in indigenous resources.  This facility is one of 
the most cost-effective ways of generating clean energy 
right here in Vermont," Mr. Hyde said.
 
        The facility also serves an important research role, 
GMP said in a news release.  The utility received a $3.5 
million award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and 
the Electric Power Research Institute of Palo Alto, Calif., 
under DOE's Turbine Verification Project (TVP) to help 
develop the wind plant.  As a condition of the TVP program, 
GMP committed to share research and operating results with 
others in the industry, which will help further the 
development of wind energy in other areas with harsh weather 
conditions.
 
        The total cost of the project is approximately $11 
million. With the award from DOE and EPRI, GMP projects that 
the cost of the power generated from the turbines will be 
comparable to other potential options over the 25-year life 
of the plant.
   
        "The Searsburg wind facility is the product of careful 
site selection, years of wind resource assessments, and the 
involvement of the local community and environmental 
organizations early on in the planning process," Mr. Hyde 
said.
   
        Prior to construction, GMP studied the possible effects 
on black bear habitat and migrating and breeding birds, and 
also researched public acceptance of wind power and 
conducted other environmental studies.  Research will 
continue for some time after initial operation to create a 
significant base of knowledge on the fit of this technology 
in the New England climate.
   
        The 11 state-of-the-art 550-kW wind turbines were 
manufactured by Zond Corp. (now Enron Wind Corp.) of 
Tehachapi, Calif., and are designed to withstand the rigors 
of the Vermont environment. The wind machines are 
three-bladed, horizontal axis turbines with upwind rotors 
and are mounted on 132-foot tubular towers built on 36-
square-foot foundations. Each rotor blade is 60 feet long 
and weighs about 4,250 pounds.
 
        The wind farm's opening date was delayed this spring 
after some mechanical problems were discovered during the 
utility's acceptance testing of the machines.  According to 
John Zimmerman of Vermont Environmental Research Associates, 
a consultant who has overseen GMP's wind program, the 
problems involved a missing part in the turbines' braking 
system, which resulted in some slipped gears, and fretting 
corrosion of some gear teeth, which occurred while the 
turbine rotors were locked down before electrical lines were 
extended to the site.  The problems were corrected and 
acceptance tests were completed before the facility went 
into operation.
 
        GMP recently received AWEA's 1997 Utility Award in 
recognition of the company's contribution to the advancement 
of wind energy.
 
        To celebrate the opening of its new facility, GMP is 
hosting Wind Energy Day on Saturday, August 16, at the 
Deerfield Valley Farmers Fair on School Street in 
Wilmington, Vermont. Families will be able to participate in 
many activities including tours of the wind facility, 
renewable energy and environmental exhibits, rides in 
electric vehicles and building wind-related projects.  An 
image of the new wind farm is available on the World Wide 
Web at a href="http://www.gmpvt.com/gifs/windturb.gif>" target="_blank">http://www.gmpvt.com/gifs/windturb.gif>;.
 
        In other news, Green Mountain Energy (GME) registered 
with the California Public Utilities Commission July 1 to be 
an electricity provider when the state's utility market 
opens to competition in January 1998.  Julie Blunden, the 
company's California regional director, said GME is a "new 
kind of power company."
 
        Added company spokesman Kevin Hartley, "We can be 
thought of as the un-utility(SM).  As the un-utility(SM), we 
want to change both the way power is made and how people 
feel about buying it."
   
        "Our goal," he said, "is to unleash the demand for 
renewable energy from natural sources like the sun, wind, 
and rivers. If more people demand cleaner power 
alternatives, eventually we can turn more renewable power 
plants on and turn off some of the most environmentally 
damaging ones."
 
        GME said it plans to reward customers for using less 
power and helping the environment through its innovative 
EcoCredits(SM) program.  The EcoCredits(SM) program rewards 
customers who consume less power over time or help the 
environment, whether they host a candlelight dinner, plant a 
tree or garden, or quit smoking. Customers are rewarded with 
EcoCredits(SM) that can be redeemed in a number of ways. "We 
want to encourage our customers to have fun and take an 
active part in helping the environment," Hartley said.
 
 
KARAS SEES STRONG GROWTH
FOR WIND: COST CRITICAL
 
        Wind energy is poised for very strong growth over the 
next two decades, provided ways can be found to reduce its 
cost still further, according to Kenneth Karas, Chairman and 
CEO of Enron Wind Corp.  Karas outlined his perspective on 
the wind industry's prospects at the opening session of 
Windpower '97 June 16.
 
        The market for renewable energy, both in the U.S. and 
worldwide, is likely headed for expansion, Karas said.  
Enron expects that in the next 20 years, renewables will 
increase in the U.S. from 0.6 quads [quadrillion BTUs-
-one quad is equal to about 180 million barrels of oil or 
100 billion kWh of electricity] to two quads, for a growth 
rate of 8% per year; worldwide, from 29 quads to 57 quads, 
or about 3.6% annual growth.
 
        Enron Wind Corp., Karas said, is a newly-formed 
subsidiary of Enron Renewable Energy Corp. (EREC), which in 
turn is one of five top-level business divisions of Enron.  
The parent company's power marketing division is the largest 
unregulated power marketer in the U.S., while its gas 
division is one of the largest gas producers in the world.
 
        In contrast to the past few years, during which wind 
has been in a downdraft in the U.S. due to utility 
deregulation, Karas said the near-term outlook is more 
promising:  "Wind sales in 1996 were essentially flat from 
1995, due to declines [from 1995 levels] in India and 
Germany.  We expect them to increase in 1997 and 1998, and 
to be largely driven by the U.S. market.  Last year 10 MW 
were installed in the U.S.  This year it will be more like 
100 MW and next year several hundred--it's one of the more 
robust markets, frankly to our surprise and also our 
delight."
 
        Enron Wind forecasts that a total of 9,465 MW of new 
wind capacity will be installed worldwide through the year 
2001, Karas said, with regional totals as follows:  Europe 
5,860 MW ("could be a bit lower"), Asia 1,775 MW ("most in 
China and India, probably mostly indigenous manufacturing 
through licensing arrangements"), U.S. and Canada 1,050 MW, 
Africa 355 MW, Latin America 325 MW, and Australia and New 
Zealand 100 MW.
 
        Key market drivers will be environmental concerns and 
wind's cost of energy (COE), Karas said.  "It's hard to say 
which is most important.  Concern for the environment has 
been a major factor, but also, cost of energy is critical.  
In our view, wind plants can generate for about 4-5 
cents/kWh at better sites (8 m/s [18 mph]).
 
        "The federal wind program goal is to get that down to 
2.5 cents/kWh.  It's a great goal and a great challenge--I 
think it's exactly right, and where we need to go.  The 
total cost of our power has to be equal to the variable cost 
of fossil fuels for our industry to achieve its maximum 
potential."
 
        Deregulation of the electric utility industry, Karas 
said, presents a series of both opportunities and threats 
for wind.  "Green power," the concept of utilities or power 
marketers selling power from wind and solar at a premium, he 
said, is "a two-edged sword--we want to make sure that 
regulators don't feel they can satisfy their environmental 
responsibility by letting the market take over."  The 
Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) approach, which would 
require suppliers to obtain a minimum percentage of 
their electricity from renewables, is a "major breakout 
opportunity," Karas said.
 
        Threats, he said, include transmission costs (if wind 
were required to pay for full transmission capacity when 
wind plants only deliver about 35% of full capacity on 
average) and pool scheduling requirements (if wind plant 
operators were required to specify 24 hours in advance how 
much power they would deliver to the system).  "There are 
ways to deal with these problems," Karas said, "but it's a 
lot better if we can address them in the initial structure."
 
        Success in the wind energy market of the future will 
"increasingly be based upon non-technical factors," Karas 
said.  "The ability to access customers directly; the 
ability to enhance or overcome the intermittent nature of 
wind through firming or other approaches; the ability to 
initiate or assist in project development; and the ability 
to assist in project financing."
 
 
FLOWIND CORP. FILES FOR
BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION
 
        FloWind Corp., a major wind plant operator based in San 
Rafael, Calif., said in a statement that it has filed for 
protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy 
Code due to "difficulties in liquidating its wind turbine 
inventories or repowering or selling its wind power plants 
in a timely fashion."
 
        The company said it had accumulated an inventory of 
components for the AWT-27 wind turbine (designed and 
produced by a subsidiary, Advanced Wind Turbines, Inc.) 
after receiving an order from customers in India, but that 
the customers subsequently proved "unable to make required 
payments.
 
        "Subsequent attempts to sell this inventory to 
alternative buyers have been frustrated by the absence of 
international trade financing competitive with the 
concessionary financing and trade support offered by foreign 
competitors," the company said, adding, "Approximately 20 
AWT turbines are operating in India and two in China.  The 
wind turbines are operating as warranted and are considered 
reliable and cost-effective."
 
        FloWind said it expects to use the balance of the AWT 
inventory to supply turbines for the 25-MW wind project 
planned by the Conservation and Renewable Energy System 
(CARES), a consortium of several public utilities, in 
Washington.
 
        The company said it has attempted to sell its Tehachapi 
wind plant in recent months, but has been unable to finalize 
a sale.
 
        It added, "Immediately prior to the Chapter 11 filing, 
FloWind entered into a codevelopment arrangement with a 
European turbine manufacturer and its construction partner 
to fully develop its Altamont and Tehachapi wind power 
plants.  This arrangement is expected to be finalized over 
the next 18 months.
 
        "The repowering and sale of its existing California 
wind power plants, with the aid and credibility of its 
codevelopment partner, will allow FloWind to emerge as a 
vital contributor to the international wind energy 
community."
 
 
NSP GETS PERMISSION TO
BUILD OUTSIDE MINN.
 
        Minnesota-based utility Northern States Power (NSP) has 
received permission from the Minnesota Public Utilities 
Commission to build the last two phases of its wind energy 
requirement outside the state if that approach is more cost-
effective.
 
        The St. Paul Pioneer-Press reported the decision July 
1.  NSP is required to contract for energy from or build 425 
MW of wind capacity by the year 2002 in return for 
permission to store nuclear waste at its Prairie Island 
nuclear power plant.  To date, the utility has contracted 
for power from 154 MW of capacity, and it is currently 
evaluating bids for another 100 MW in Phase III of its wind 
program, all of which is already built or planned for 
Buffalo Ridge in southwestern Minnesota.
 
 
DAVID FREEMAN TO HEAD
LOS ANGELES UTILITY
 
        David Freeman, former head of the Sacramento Municipal 
Utility District (SMUD) and Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) 
and a strong proponent of renewable energy, is in line to 
become general manager of the Los Angeles Department of 
Water and Power (LADWP), the nation's largest municipal 
utility, September 1.
 
        The trade newsletter Energy Daily reported July 1 that 
Freeman has been nominated by Los Angeles Mayor Richard 
Riordan to head the giant utility, which is facing a variety 
of stresses as it struggles to prepare for the advent of 
retail competition in California beginning January 1, 1998.  
LADWP's residential electricity rates are currently 
subsidized by its large industrial customers and will have 
to increase, which may make it vulnerable to competitors in 
the power marketing industry.  Also, talks with power 
marketer Duke-Louis Dreyfus about a possible merger, which 
might have given LADWP greater competitive leverage, have 
thus far been unsuccessful.
 
        During his tenure at SMUD, Freeman successfully 
developed a plan to replace generation from that utility's 
troubled Rancho Seco nuclear plant, which ultimately was 
shut down, with power from wind, solar, biomass, and 
gas combined with an aggressive conservation program.
 
 
ITALIAN VENTO POWER DETAILS
WIND DEVELOPMENT PLANS
 
        Italian Vento Power Corp. (IVPC), a company that is 
jointly owned by Tomen Power Corp. (UK), a subsidiary of a 
major Japanese trading firm, and IVPC Energy BV (IEBV), said 
it is currently developing wind energy projects totalling 
more than 170 MW in southern Italy.
 
        Brian Caffyn of International Energy, Inc., and Akira 
Amano of Tomen Corp., the Japanese parent of Tomen UK, said 
in a letter that IVPC has already completed a 37.8-MW 
project using Vestas V42 turbines at three separate sites, 
and that it recently completed financing for another 21.6-MW 
wind farm.  The second facility, the two said, will be 
finished by November, and will use Vestas V44 units:  "When 
these additional turbines are installed and connected with 
the existing 27.6 MW of Phase 1 at the 
Monteleone/Anzano/Sant Agata site in one interconnection 
point, [the entire wind farm] will comprise the largest 
operating project in Europe with a total capacity of 49.2 
MW."
 
        Caffyn and Amano said IVPC is seeking term financing to 
replace the construction financing provided by Tomen Corp., 
and added, "This is expected to be accomplished in a joint 
financing with an additional 110 MW of projects to be 
constructed for a total 170-MW project financing."  One 
54-MW plant is planned for completion in 1998, they said, 
and the entire 110 MW is expected to be finished by 1999.
 
        Development financing, turbine selection, and wind 
plant operations are managed by Oreste Vigorito of IVPC, who 
is the firm's managing director, with assistance from 
International Energy, a firm headed by Caffyn.  According to 
a trade bulletin from the U.S. Department of Commerce, 
which reported recently on IVPC's activities, electricity 
from the projects is being sold to ENEL, Italy's state 
utility, under a 15-year contract.
 

http://www.txses.org/wew/wew_754.txt

 

Comment by Pineo Girl on April 21, 2016 at 11:28am

Thank you Lisa! And thank you for Eric for posting!  It is so hard to get the real truth out!

 

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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