Jay, Livermore Falls officials seek help to get hydroelectric plants connected to New England grid
Sep 1, 2023
BY DONNA M. PERRY SUN JOURNAL
JAY — Town officials are asking Maine’s congressional delegation to look into the delay by ISO New England in approving a request to interconnect four hydroelectric plants in Jay, Livermore and Livermore Falls in order to sell electricity to the New England power grid.
ISO New England is an “independent, not-for-profit corporation responsible for keeping electricity flowing across the six New England states and ensuring that the region has reliable, competitively priced wholesale electricity today and into the future,” according to its website.
Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, headquartered in Maryland, owns two hydroelectric facilities in Jay and one each in neighboring Livermore and Livermore Falls. The company was licensed to produce electricity for the Pixelle Specialty Solutions Androscoggin Mill in Jay, which closed earlier this year.
It was a “devastating blow to the town,” Jay assessing agent Paul Binette wrote in the letter to U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, and Rep. Jared Golden. Binette is also the assessing agent for Livermore and Livermore Falls.
Town Manager Shiloh LaFreniere sent three emails similar to the letter.
Livermore Falls Town Manager Carrie Castonguay said she is also sending a letter on behalf of Livermore Falls.
“Currently, these four hydroelectric dams are not authorized to connect to sell energy to the grid but can only sell energy to the now shuttered mill,” Binette wrote. “This issue definitely affects the valuation of the hydro dams if they cannot sell energy. As you can imagine, the town of Jay is currently not in a position to lose any more assessed valuation.” In Binette’s recent conversations with officials from Andro Hydro, an affiliate of Eagle Creek, which owns and operates the facilities, “we have learned that ISO-NE has unexpectedly advised Andro Hydro that their interconnection would be delayed because a certain requirement was not met by an ISO-NE internal deadline,” according to Binette. “This deadline, as explained to us, had not been published or communicated earlier in the process with Andro Hydro, LLC.”
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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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