Legislative and Environmentalists Send Utilities an Order : Raise the Power Rates

  The Maine PUC Asks Why CMP Wants A Rate Increase.

   Q. Before you lay out the specifics of CMP’s Rate Plan, please describe any circumstances that you believe provide important context. 

 A. The following are important contextual considerations for CMP’s Rate Plan: 
  • (1) Grid Needs (much of the CMP distribution grid is more than sixty years old, not  automated, and not ready for integration of tens of thousands of distributed energy resources (“DERs”)); 

  •           DERs is a fancy word for solar projects, already a quarter billion dollar burden on the ratepayers and has saturated the distribution system. Now the 7% of Maine people in the NEB scam are swindling the rest of the customer base for more sending their solar developer lobbyists to buy favors from Augusta politicians

  •  (2) Climate Change Needs (we are experiencing more frequent storms and intense weather; at the same time, Maine has the highest tree density of any state in the United States); 

  •         We are not experiencing "more frequent and intense weather"  Our tree density is a carbon sink. C02 is climate insignificant. Shame on CMP for repeating the enviro-freaks narrative.

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Comment by Dan McKay on April 8, 2023 at 9:48am

Here is why CMP is requesting money for distribution infrastructure upgrades.

 . Maine’s transportation electrification goals of 41,000 light-duty EVs by 2025 and 219,000 EVs by 2030  

Comment by Dudley G. Gray on April 6, 2023 at 3:26pm

 I talked to a lovely lady at CMP today and asked why they don't publish their proposed rate increases in dollars per  KWH, which would be more easily understood by the rate paying public. She demurred but said it was a good question for which she had no answer.

hear is my thumbnail explanation

CMP is asking for rate  increases on the distribution side which is all that they control.

$43.5 million. summer 2023. .079 per KWH

$ 27.7  million           2024.    .050 per kWH

$ 23.7 million            2025     .043 per KWH

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                                            1.72 per KWH       EX 550 KWH monthly. $9.46 increase   monthly

                                  

Future programs for Grid, Tree trimming etc

$ 0.7 million 2025. .0012 per KWH

$ 8.3 million 2026.  .0151 per KWH

$ 8.4 million 2027.   .0142 per KWH

$ 7.8 million 2028     .0142 per KWH

$8.4 million  2029     .0152per KWH

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                                  .0609 per KWH

So , all in at the end of 2029 provided nothing else changes the distribution side of your 

increase from the present  $.102 per KWH to $.1253 or 23 %

  Which equals $12.81 monthly for a 550 KWH user.

SUPPLY presently .1763

Deliver as above  .1253

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                          .3016 per KWH X 550 KWH per month equals $165.88 . The question is how does this sit with Ratepayers

I just hope my Mathis correct

 

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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