It’s all about the grid: the past, present and future of energy in Maine

NB: Posting the link as the content looks to be of interest, but have not yet watched.

By Kate Cough
November 3, 2024


Maine Monitor editor Kate Cough, in a Mitchell Center talk, explores the past and future of energy in Maine.

How can we build enough transmission to meet the needs of an increasingly electrified world? What can be done to make sure those lines are sited responsibly? How can we keep prices down while preparing for a climate with more intense wind and storms? 

In this talk, given at the University of Maine’s Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions in late September, Maine Monitor editor Kate Cough looks at how we got here in the first place.

The talk focuses on the changes that have shaped Maine’s energy landscape since the late 1990s, when the Legislature effectively banned grid owners from owning and operating generation plants, and how those changes have influenced today’s landscape as the state looks to incorporate more renewable energy sources and meet its climate goals.

https://themainemonitor.org/grid-energy-talk/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB2eBDGsGKM&t=7s

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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on November 5, 2024 at 9:43am

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Comment by Dan McKay on November 5, 2024 at 8:42am

Quick response. The presenter, Ms.Cough, self proclaims herself as a journalist, not an activist, but interjects opinions that seem to favor a new realm of wind and solar while omitting impacts on reliability,, electricity costs and consideration of why, in hell, are is she so worried about C02 emission driven policies.

She defines the various entities involved in electricity policies,  describing Lawmakers: " Lawmakers enact legislation that incentives one kind of resource over another( net energy billing,Inflation Reduction Act)" and overlooks how this undermines the principles of completion.

She should stick to just reporting and should not be confining her speeches to groups promoting wind and solar.

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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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