EUT Agenda - Thursday, January 26th.

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Below please find the agenda for the meeting of the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology for Thursday, January 26th.

 

Meeting starts at 1PM

 

Electric Industry Overview

-Public Utilities Commission

-Office of the Public Advocate

-ISO-NE

 

Natural Gas Overview

-Public Utilities Commission

-Office of the Public Advocate

 

Interested Parties Presentations

-Limited to 3 minutes per presenter

 

For those who already signed up to speak on Thursday, the 26th, no further action is needed. For those that signed up to speak today, please email Abben Maguire (Abben.Maguire@legislature.maine.gov) if you wish to speak tomorrow.  There will be additional opportunities to address the committee on Tuesday, January 30th after the water overview and Thursday, February 2nd, after the gas safety/dig safe overview. With the change in scheduling, please note that the opportunity to address the committee may occur much later in the afternoon, as there are additional items on the agenda for each meeting date.

 

 

Deirdre Schneider

Legislative Analyst

Office of Policy and Legal Analysis

(207) 287-1670   

deirdre.schneider@legislature.maine.gov


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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on January 26, 2017 at 8:46pm

I had planned to attend this, however the elderly woman I care for got her appointment in Bangor confused. 

Comment by Dan McKay on January 24, 2017 at 5:32pm
What I see at Energy, Utilities, and Technology Hearings in Augusta  
I see the public policies advocated by the Public Advocate as my money and all ratepayer's money going up in smoke and I often wonder what he might be smoking.
   I see the extraordinary engineers of ISO-NE chasing electrons from wind mills and solar arrays, trying so hard to make public energy policy based on intermittent resources harmonize with the split second electrical  demand pulsing, continuously, but inconsistently throughout the miles and miles of lifelines. A nerve has been hit within the nerve center of our electrical operations. In a very recent piece written by the CEO of ISO-NE, Gordon Van Welie, comments on the challenges of incorporating renewable resources, distributed generation and demand resources ,  "The ISO has been preparing for the new order, but looming challenges could derail the region’s progress toward a hybrid power system that provides competitively-priced, reliable, and clean electricity"
    I see the PUC carrying out legislative mandates and, more often than not, a split amongst the commissioners occurs on whether specific long term contracts with renewables will lower electric costs. The results are not looking good for the ratepayers so far.
   I see lawmakers swayed by promises from stakeholders with clever words and catch phrases, while too many paycheck to paycheck ratepayers are cast into the " forgotten" and unheard from, role.
Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on January 24, 2017 at 3:02pm

"This inauguration is not about the transfer of power from one government to another, it is not about the transfer of power from one party to another, it IS about the transfer of power from Washington DC to you, the people"

Donald J. Trump

I suggest we act, from our communities upward. It starts with becoming informed, at meetings such as these. Then carrying the message back for at least an attempt of informed action.

 

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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