I have been checking the ISO-NE website regularly for the past few weeks, since they announced the addition of the "real time fuel mix chart". The chart is on the bottom of the "ISO Express" page. Today's fuel mix has been typical. Total demand follows a curve from low during the night to high during the day. Renewables, mostly waste and biomass make up 6% of total generation. 885 MW of wind turbines, occupying about 80 miles of New England's mountain ridges, more than half in Maine, are generating a mere 22% of renewables, or about 1.3 % of total grid demand. The first picture is the total fuel mix chart. The second picture is the renewable fuel mix chart. When will policy makers realize we are on a fool's errand with wind power?
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it is high time the media be honest but since so many of them have vested interest these lies are so hard to uncover ..and heartbreaking..but we must keep up our mission against wind power, which continues to despoil or beautiful State and its wildlife and nature..
But Mainers love the idea of biomass. It's renewable! Trees are miraculous; producing oxygen, feeding on CO2, providing cooling shade, filtering our water, preventing erosion, creating rain. And yet we wage war on our forests in the name of green energy. Humans are strange creatures, ruled by greed and ignorance. When will our forests be treated with the respect they deserve? When will trees earn carbon credits? When will we evolve to the point where we plant trees, not turbines?
Even though this this real time fuel-mix cartoon chart shows how meaningless embellished wind energy production is to the grid, it does expose the the big green lie. That horrendous warm and fuzzy save the world lie about being used to sell wind projects.
Then there are the rigged renewable energy mandates that have been put in place. With "renewable" Biomass energy burning up our forest products, it is clear to see any of the so called climate benefits from wind energy are annihilated many times over from biomass energy production. This ecosystem burning industry also appears to be silently walking away with most of the Production Tax Credits being given away by taxpayers. Many companies like Nextera selling wind energy, are also in Biomass energy business.
As I stated in an earlier statement, burning wood for energy is highly polluting. “Power plants burning wood and other forms of biomass emit about 3,000 pounds of CO2 per megawatt-hour — an emissions rate that is approximately fifty percent higher than that of a coal-fired power plant.”
For those that are not aware Biomass cutting completely strips the land for their wood product harvest. When they are done the place looks like a Walmart parking lot. Look at the images below these are recent cuts. At the rate they are going, they will run out of biomass cuttings in a few decades. Then what? These cut forests and brush lands will never come close to regenerating.
I spent 2 decades in these remote lands and the destruction just in my life time to these rural landscapes is mind boggling. We now have turbines slaughtering the flying species and below ground level, intensive biomass harvesting devouring the land.
Look close at the images below because this West Coast renewable energy monster is coming to Maine.
This was posted in the Maine Wire: not sure how to post on this blog so I'll put it here.
http://www.themainewire.com/2015/07/stephens-illusion-american-ener...
Wow Pineo Girl that would be awesome. Trying to pin down what the turbines use is tough, the idea these projects could purchase from coventional power plants and re-sell as "green"? Wow. According to wind energy association stats, operation and maintenance costs at wind installations are approximately $31,000. per MW, of which 5% of that is power purchased off the grid to operate the turbines.
I am about to send a letter to the Commissioner of FERC to get the list of largest retail power purchasers from Bangor Hydro and CMP - I have an old letter from Bangor Hydro obtained through FERC FOIA that shows Rollins and Stetson are 2 of Bangor Hydro's largest retail customers! I could see them buying power to meet their PPA's - And then claiming they produced the power to FERC- And taking the PTC for the renewable energy!
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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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"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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