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Comment by Dan McKay on January 27, 2011 at 9:37pm
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Thank you, Mr. Roper. As you know , the Rollins project is contracted to sell to CMP and Bangor Hydro as mandated by the PUC. CMP originally rejected the proposed contract as they anticipated rate increases, but the PUC forced a contract. I would believe this is related to the renewable portfolio law. You can look up comments of PUC on new standard offer contract where they seems to be some reference to this contract, but it is very obscure.
I was told recently by a representative for the developer proposing a project in Carthage ( Saddleback Mtn ) that they had procured a power purchase agreement with someone whom he would not disclose on propriety grounds. I assume that means a high price, since he would have been more than willing to brag if it meant lower prices than average.
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Comment by Harrison Roper on January 27, 2011 at 6:14pm
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Some research on the FERC website will yield you quarterly summaries of all US power sources. There is a huge nationwide list of power sources. The summaries are posted about a month after the end of each quarter, with the data rounded to thousands of MWh. Prices are also given. All of the information is at least a month old, of course. Stetson I & II is called "Evergreen Wind Power V, LLC." Mars Hill is "Evergreen Wind Power, LLC" You can also get individual auction contracts, thousands of them, if you understand them; I do not. I have found the bureaucrats at FERC to be helpful to me on the phone.
Harry Roper Houlton/Danforth
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LePage is trapped. He can't stop wind projects in Maine. And he can't stop them from increasing electric bills in this state. They sell within ISO-NE. Everything happening within ISO-NE affects every state within their region.
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on January 27, 2011 at 11:08am
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I agree
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How about just keeping the free market arrangements that have worked for over a hundred years to manage the electric industry. Government's assumption that they know what's best for us by partnering with wind developers is utter corruption.
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Comment by freemont tibbetts on January 27, 2011 at 9:47am
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How about it Governor Paul LePage should electricity from wind developments be declared a secret from the taxpayers of the state of Maine ??? . Freemont Tibbetts 37, Bruce Tibbetts Dr, Dixfield Maine.
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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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