Public Hearing on 2/26/19 - Resolve, To Direct a Plan for Energy Independence for Maine

Tue, Feb 26, 2019 1:00PM

Public Hearing on Tuesday - Resolve, To Direct a Plan for Energy Independence for Maine

Link for audio:

(AUDIO ONLY) EUT http://legislature.maine.gov/Audio/#211

Public Hearing, February 26th at 1:00 PM for about 4 hours
LD 658, HP0479 Resolve, To Direct a Plan for Energy Independence for Maine - Rep. Brian Hubbell of Bar Harbor Subjects: ENERGY, PLANNING, ENERGY INDEPENDENCE GOALS
This resolve directs the Governor's Energy Office to adopt a 10-year energy independence plan, including conservation and renewable energy strategies, for the State to become a net exporter of energy by 2030. It requires the office to develop the plan through a collaborative stakeholder process. The plan must be submitted to the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology by December 31, 2019 along with suggested legislation necessary to implement the plan. The resolve authorizes the Joint Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology to report out a bill to the Second Regular Session of the 129th Legislature related to the plan.
 
 
Maine should plan for energy independence by 2030 (BDN)
By Brian Hubbell, Special to the BDN • February 24, 2019 
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Expanded electrification can further displace carbon fuels. Modern electric heat pumps will greatly reduce consumption of heating oil.

More practical support for electric vehicles will further reduce consumption of gasoline. With workplace recharging, batteries of electric vehicles themselves can serve to balance energy supply...................................

To move forward, we need an economic plan which allows rapid market-driven development of renewable resources over the next ten years. That’s why I’ve introduced LD 658 which directs a plan for energy independence by 2030, and will be heard in the Energy Committee on February 26.........................

https://bangordailynews.com/2019/02/24/opinion/contributors/maine-s...

EUT link:

http://legislature.maine.gov/committee/#Committees/EUT

EUT Contact information:

http://www.windtaskforce.org/page/eut-contact-information

EUT Audio Link:

http://www.windtaskforce.org/page/eut-enr-audio-links

http://www.rephubbell.com/about/

 

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Comment by Willem Post on February 26, 2019 at 1:24pm

Maine ENERGY INDEPENDENT is a HOAX.

The idiocy of such a statement is beyond rational in the 21st century.

Would Maine disconnect from the NE grid?

Would Maine make all its various fuels, and generate all its electricity with home-grown fuels to operate its economy and make good and services?

Comment by John F. Hussey on February 26, 2019 at 1:22pm

The REAL COST of unreliable "renewables"

https://principia-scientific.org/uk-weather-dependent-renewables-in...

Comment by Long Islander on February 24, 2019 at 10:17pm

*****************REALITY CHECK****************************
Vaclav Smil: A Critical Look at Claims for Green Technologies
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/vaclav-smil-a-critical-...

Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on February 24, 2019 at 4:27pm

For years, tools like NRCM and paid off legislative leadership beat us over the head that we needed to have wind power for our electricity supplies to stop global warming. Meanwhile we repeatedly pointed out that electricity generation accounted for under 10% of Maine's dreaded CO2 output. Our message finally began getting through so now they have turned to cars and heating as CO2 villains. Good luck doing either with electricity. This sort of bill can only be sourced from wind and solar profiteers or C minus essays from high school freshmen.

Comment by Dan McKay on February 24, 2019 at 2:42pm

A. O. Cortez would be so proud. Maine will burn oil, coal, natural gas, wood and propane for as long as the state exists and the day it doesn't it will become a ghost state. Long live fossil fuels.

Comment by Willem Post on February 24, 2019 at 2:10pm

There is a lot of uninformed talk about heat pumps by the Governor and many pro RE folks.

HEAT PUMPS DO NOT WORK IN ENERGY HOG HOUSES.

ABOUT 90% of ALL HOUSING IN MAINE AND VERMONT ARE UNSUITABLE FOR HEAT PUMPS

See URLs to get informed.

1) A typical “Vermont mix” house, 2000 sq ft, requires for space heating about 64000 Btu/h at -20F outdoor and 65F indoor (85F temperature difference), and requires for space cooling about 20,000 Btu/h at 100F outdoor, and 70F indoor (30F temperature difference). Heat pumps would provide about 32% to 34% of the heat during the heating season, with the rest provided by the conventional system and would provide 100% of space cooling.

 

Government heat pump programs, such as in Vermont and Maine, which subsidize the installation of heat pumps in such houses would have unacceptable outcomes, if the goal is minimal CO2. See URLs.

 

2) A highly sealed/highly insulated house in Vermont, 2000 sq ft, requires for space heating about 17000 Btu/h at -20F outdoor and 65F indoor, and requires for space cooling about 5,000 Btu/h at 100F outdoor and 70F indoor (30F temperature difference). Heat pumps would provide 100% of space heating and cooling.

 

Such a house would be about 10% more expensive than a “Vermont mix” house, because it would require an R-20 basement, R-40 walls, R-60 roof, triple-glazed windows (R-7 to R-10) and insulated doors (R-8 to R-10), and its leakage rate would have to be less than 0.6 air changes per hour, ACH, @ -50 pascal, as verified by a blower door test.In Vermont, about 1% of all housing is highly sealed/highly insulated.

 

These URLs describe what happens, if heat pumps are installed in energy-hog houses in Vermont and Maine

 

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/fact-checking-regarding...

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/heat-pumps-oversold-by-...

http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/vermont-baseless-claims...

Comment by John F. Hussey on February 24, 2019 at 2:07pm

Hubble, born in Los Angeles, another CALIFIORNIA LIBERAL trying to "CALIFORNICATE" MAINE!

At MIT Hubbell tried to convince people that a glass house would work in a cold climate.... "worked" as long as the outside temp didn't get below 42*f..... When I Maine does it get ABOVE 42*f?  https://books.google.com/books?id=zlosooWOcW8C&pg=PA77&lpg=...

U.S. Sen Angus King

THE UNTOLD STORY OF RECORD HILL WIND

The Untold Story of Record Hill Wind, continued

 

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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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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