Story by Thomas Catenacci
"due to a grid operator's order"
Top energy regulator warns fossil fuel terminal shutdown could jeopardize heat for millions of Americans
Millions of Americans in New England would face an elevated risk of heat and power shortfalls during the winter if a potential plan to shutter a major natural gas terminal proceeds, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) warned this week.
In a rare joint statement issued Monday, FERC, the nation's top energy regulator, and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a lead independent grid watchdog, said there would be "serious concerns" about local energy reliability and affordability without the Everett Marine Terminal. The Everett, Massachusetts, facility, which receives 99% of all U.S. imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG), may cease operations in 2024.
"Although there was evidence that the retirement of Everett would be ‘manageable’ for the electric system, at least in the near-term, given anticipated new resource deployments and transmission development, minimal load growth, limited resource retirements, and increased reliance on non-natural gas generators, the evidence indicates that, should those expectations not materialize as anticipated, ensuring reliability and affordability could become challenging in the face of a significant winter event," FERC and NERC said.
"As discussions regarding the future of Everett continue, we encourage all parties to keep reliability and affordability at the center of those negotiations," they continued. "With respect to the natural gas system, we recognize that the reliability needs turn, at least for the foreseeable future, largely on facilities subject to the New England states’ jurisdiction."
While the Everett LNG terminal's operator Constellation has yet to confirm it will shut the facility down, the energy company is planning to retire its nearby natural gas-fired power plant which is fed by imports that come through the marine terminal. The company said in 2020 that due to a grid operator's order, it did not "see a path to continue commercial electric generation" at the power plant.
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Comment by Willem Post on November 9, 2023 at 7:21am
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Woke folks wanting to play Russian Roulette, but they do not know the rules.
The clowns are yelling and screaming to be put in charge, so they can save the world, even though it has been proven, by real scientists, CO2 has minimal impact on global warming.
The sun is far more powerful, because it creates water vapor and cloud cover
CO2 has a huge beneficial impact regarding increased greening of the earth, and increased land area for crops, according to NASA satellite data since 1979
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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