How To Keep Quiet, Maine People Suffering from Public Policy Electricity Costs

The word spreading around the Maine State House is " How are we to shut up the people hurting the most from high electric bills?"

Enter the Low Income Assistance Program ( LIAP ). Ratepayer and taxpayers were hit for $24 million dollars in 2024 to service this "buyout of silence" which includes over 47,000 fellow Mainers struggling with electric bills.
Now, some of the people of the Maine State House want all Mainers with reported income below 150% below the poverty limit to be automatically enrolled in LIAP.
And, to keep up with the costs of this program, Maine State House occupants have monetized the unmonetized. Net Energy Billing was designed to carry over excess credits from month to month( excess credits is monthly generation that exceeds the residence's use).
After 12 months these credits are no longer carried forward, until now. These once unmonetized credits became monetized and are earmarked to fund LIAP. And it is correct that ratepayers pick up the tab.

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Comment by arthur qwenk on January 24, 2025 at 4:28pm

It is Maine Energy Policy  that is killing Maine, as legislated by the  left wing loonies in Augusta for years now.

Mainers must speak up , or be destroyed by the woke left wing  Maine NGO operation like NRCM et al and unreliable power operations for wind and solar subsidy scamming. 

Who controls the legislature?  Those payoffs,lobbyists and  and graft laden  operations in the legislature for wind and solar  are  raising average Mainers energy costs ,those Mainers' who remain way too passive. Where are the R's with gonads anymore to represent them?

 

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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

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"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."

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