ISO-NE: Mostly wind and solar resource build out would necessitate 18 times current capacity

ISO-NE’s EPCET study highlights possibilities and challenges of the clean energy transition

Renewable-only build-outs may be vast. 

If the future resource build-out is almost entirely wind, solar, and batteries, the region will need to add roughly 18 times its current combined capacity of these resources to achieve state emissions goals and maintain reliability. 

Full news release at https://isonewswire.com/2024/08/22/iso-nes-epcet-study-highlights-p...

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Comment by Willem Post on August 24, 2024 at 8:04am

We just had 4 days of overcast, no wind, no sun; rain off and on.

No matter how much wind and solar systems you build, if there is no wind and no sun there will be NO POWER FROM THESE SOURCES, just like a car without gasoline.

THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE, FOR CHRIST SAKE

Comment by Dan McKay on August 23, 2024 at 5:35pm

The mucky-mucks of ISO-NE are betraying us and are obviously colluding with Democrat operatives to bring failure to the grid. They definitely are pushing for a  class action lawsuit.

Comment by Penny Gray on August 23, 2024 at 2:27pm

Plant trees, the real green energy.

Comment by Long Islander on August 23, 2024 at 11:59am

Current Resource Mix for ISO-NE on 8/23/24

So if renewables represent 13% and wind represents 14% of that, then wind represents 13% x 14% for a whopping total 1.8%.

https://www.iso-ne.com/

 

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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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