ISO-NE A Blue State Captured and Weak-Kneed Operational Electricity Resource Manager
ISO-NE proves to be a puppet to the blue New England States with a lack of real backbone which is driving electricity costs into the stratosphere. I would be ashamed to admit I worked for such a useless and ratepayer adverse outfit.
December 22, 2025
ISO New England statement on Department of the Interior offshore wind announcement
ISO New England is aware of the Department of the Interior’s announcement to pause offshore wind leases in the United States which includes two projects in New England: Revolution Wind and Vineyard Wind 1.
In August, ISO-NE issued a statement related to the Department of the Interior’s earlier order, since overturned, to stop construction on the Revolution Wind project. Our position on today’s announcement is similar.
A significant portion of Vineyard Wind is complete and is supplying hundreds of megawatts to the region. Revolution Wind is also largely complete and the ISO anticipates the project to come online in 2026.
Through the region’s wholesale markets, both Vineyard Wind and Revolution Wind have committed to helping meet New England’s demand for electricity. Both projects are included in our near-term and future modeling and analyses to ensure adequate electricity for New England.
These projects are particularly important to system reliability in the winter when offshore wind output is highest and other forms of fuel supply are constrained. While ISO-NE forecasts enough generation capacity is available for the current season, canceling or delaying these projects will increase costs and risks to reliability in our region.
Beyond increasing risk to reliability, delays of new generating resources also will adversely affect New England’s economy and industrial growth, including potential future data centers.
As we stated in August, New England must maintain and add to its energy infrastructure. Unpredictable risks and threats to resources — regardless of technology — that have made significant capital investments, secured necessary permits, and are close to completion will stifle future investments, increase costs to consumers, and undermine the power grid’s reliability and the region’s economy now and in the future. Given the prior extensive review of these projects, ISO New England hopes that to the extent there are any relevant national security concerns, they can be resolved quickly.
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Comment by Dan McKay 1 hour ago
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"Offshore wind across the Northeast stalled in 2025 under a Republican trifecta in Washington that was ushered in by last year’s election. Trump started the year by threatening to stop wind projects already under construction and swiftly took action to block new permits, and ended the year on a similar note, this time taking aim at Vineyard Wind, the lone offshore wind project currently delivering power to Massachusetts. The Healey administration also proposed to delay a statutory offshore wind procurement requirement intended to keep the state on track to meet its climate commitments."
https://commonwealthbeacon.org/energy/our-top-five-climate-stories-...
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ISO-NE is all but begging FERC and the Department of Energy to save them from their failures to assure New Englanders a strong electric market based on real on-time generators. Its time for ISO-NE to stop bragging about their engineering expertise juggling wind, solar and battery resources and get the damn market to work for the people.
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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