I SAY THE STATE SHOULD FIGURE REDUCTION IN HEATING WITH OIL AS CREDITS TO THE RENEWABLE PORTFOLIO STANDARD

QUIETLY, MAINE IS REDUCING OIL CONSUMPTION AND ENTERING RENEWABLE ELECTRICAL GENERATION BY TRIED AND TRUE ENERGY RESOURCE. WOOD, PERHAPS TRANSITIONAL,  PERHAPS NOT, BUT THERE IS NO WIND IN THE PORTFOLIO.



Maine’s Colby College has begun construction on a new biomass heating plant that will replace about one million gallons of heating fuel each year with locally-sourced woodchips. 
Moose River Lumber Co. will soon not only produce enough lumber to construct 10,000 homes a year, it will also make its own electricity while doing so. The $1.4 million cogeneration project this spring will produce 40 percent of the company's power, making it greener and more competitive over the long-term, Sales Manager Steve Banahan said. 
IRVING MILL  DIXFIELD
Another project will turn some of the steam created by the mill's large boiler into electricity.
About half the cost of that project, $700,000, comes from a grant from Efficiency Maine. Once the system is created, Orcutt said about 25 to 30 percent of the mill's electrical needs will be generated by the new steam-capture system.

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Two of the grants will be used to fund heat recovery projects, reducing the mill’s fossil fuel consumption by approximately 1 Million gallons of oil per year, enough to heat nearly 1,000 homes. By capturing waste steam from the papermaking process and reusing it to heat process water and the mill, the company expects to save approximately $2 million in operating costs annually. Grant funds for the two heat recovery projects are provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (Recovery Act) and administered by Efficiency Maine.
The remaining two grants are funding upgrades to nearly 40 high efficiency drives throughout the facility, reducing electrical consumption by 6 Million kWh each year for the next 10 years, at a cost of 1.9 cents/kWh. The energy savings is equivalent to the electric consumption of 950 homes each year. Funding for the equipment updates was made possible by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (or RGGI). 
BAR HARBOR, Maine — Mice have long been the focus of an 81-year-old local biomedical research facility, but wood pellets were not far behind in the minds of people who had gathered Monday for the laboratory’s latest project.
Officials with The Jackson Laboratory said the $4.4 million project is expected to result in the largest wood pellet boiler in the country. The project, funded in part by a $1 million grant from Efficiency Maine Trust, is expected to result in a $22 million investment in Maine’s economy over the next 10 years, lab officials said Monday.
John Fitzgerald, senior director of facilities services for the lab, said the boiler would help the lab save money on heating and electricity costs. The pellet-fired steam boiler is expected to reduce the lab’s heating costs by $700,000 a year and its electricity costs by $200,000 a year, he said.

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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."

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