Is the Maine PUC Covering Up for Renewables Effect on the Standard Offer Price Increase?

Why does the Maine PUC keep telling people that Standard Offer costs are solely tied to natural gas costs?
 
Here the PUC tells Legislators on the EUT Committee that a new program initiated by ISO-NE will increase Standard Offer Prices:
"Suppliers indicated that certain ISO-NE program costs increase risks as the costs are highly variable, uncertain and are not costs that can be easily hedged. For example, ISO-NE introduced a new program, Day-Ahead Ancillary Services Initiative (DAAS or DASI), in March of 2025." 
 
Why not tell us why DAAS and DASI are needed? Here is an explanation uncovered from the internet:
"The new day-ahead ancillary services (DA A/S) market design will directly improve the ability of system operators and generation owners to respond to the system’s sudden energy shortfalls by dispatching fast-ramping, reserve-capable resources. This phenomenon will occur more often as more intermittent resources supply energy needs and unexpected spikes in...." 
 
And here is the PUC telling the EUT Committee that Net Energy Billing is another culprit raising costs:
"Suppliers Paid for Load Served (pass-through of NEB risk) Suppliers indicated that they include a risk premium associated with the Net Energy Billing (NEB) kilowatt-hour (kWh) credit program. Their risk comes from an imbalance between load obligation and billed load resulting from the load settlement process."

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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain 12 hours ago

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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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