How Will the Flim-Flam Man of the PUC Try to Pull the Wool Over the Eyes of the Maine People After Aroostook County Wind Project Bids Become Available?
The Flim-Flam man, AKA Philip Bartlett, PUC Commissioner will present the Maine people with some numbers from the 1200 megawatt wind project bid that he will say saves us money on our electric bills.
He will not tell you about all the other numbers that come with this wind project. He will focus on the bid amount per megawatt hour against the ISO-NE wholesale market price. That number may be less than wholesale which will result in a savings per the "Energy Portion" of the contract, but there is more amounts payable by Maine electric customers than just the "Energy Portion"
There is the ISO-NE transmission component that is currently over $2billion dollars and, if approved, will cost all New England states porportional to their sales compared to other New England states. For Maine that would be about 10% of the 2+ billion dollar cost.
There are the Renewable Energy Credits(RECs) gifted to the wind project output which will be between $28 to $50 per megawatt hour. A 1200 megawatt wind project is estimated to produce 3,500,000 megawatt hours/RECS per year.
There will be the added standby cost of "Flexible Resources" needed to backstop the intermittent output of the wind project and requiring added compensation for the times this wind project causes negative wholesale pricing.
There is the cost of the Maine utilities to address purchasing and selling the wind output as well as the costs of reporting these numbers to the PUC.
And there will probably be more unintended costs to come.
The Flim-Flam man will avoid telling you about these extra costs, but they will add up to hundreds of millions of dollars over a 20 year contract timeline. And the fact is that the PUC has the staff that can determine these costs.
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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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