Maine is unique and  Maine people can be a fiercely independent sort about certain things, even when committed to sharing obligations and rewards with neighboring states.

   Maine people rejected the idea of a transmission line to supply 24/7 electricity into the grid Maine shares with the 5 other New England States. 
   Maine also is unique in defining renewable energy sources. No other state in New England classifies biomass combustion as Class I renewables as purposely as Maine does.
    Maine has a plentiful resource in biomass. Biomass plants in Maine provide more than enough classified renewable credits to keep up with increasing portfolio requirements and by making the credits more applicable to compliance to green energy standards than other New England states allow, Maine ratepayers are not stuck with the higher prices that solar and wind demand as compensation for being 'Green"
   Maine may not be willing to use a small part of it's land to provide Massachusetts with a big dose of green energy credit as well as providing all of New England with consistent, reliable electricity able to backstop fickle solar and wind.But Maine, being a participant in the ISO-NE wholesale electric market, NECEC or no NECEC is as exposed to high electric prices as the rest of New England. It's the price Maine pays for trading it's independence for what was once thought of as a security blanket ( more generators scattered throughout more states used to be a guarantee that the power was always plentiful).It all changed when wind and solar became the darlings of saving a planet from burning up (cough).Plunged into a realm where too much electricity was available when the sun shined brightly and the wind blew briskly as the natural gas plants sat idle awaiting the moments of need when the wind subsided and the brightness of the sun dulled under cloud cover.
   And the natural gas plants realized their value was increasing with every new wind and solar project as their share of generation was chomped away with every new solar and wind project. Times of need propelled natural gas as a savior resource to preventing blackouts and it's just in time characteristics made natural gas the ultimate superhero with a superhero price. 
   This is a dilemma. How high will the price of natural gas rise with each new wind and solar plant? When will the price be too much for energy customers to take? And have we reached the point of no return? Will the government continue subsidizing wind and solar with taxpayer/ratepayer money until the proverbial dam bursts? We are on an unsustainable course guaranteeing a huge drop in living standards.
   Can Maine muster up the courage to be electrically independent again? Not too long ago, Maine produced electricity that Maine people needed, and at a far lower cost. 
    Natural gas-fired electric plants set the price of electricity in New England and wind and solar sets the conditions for natural gas-fired plants to set the electricity price.
   Maine needs a backstop electric generation resource that fits its renewable goals without the pressures of shipping it to competing energy hungry states and nations  elsewhere.
 
   Maine needs courage!

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Comment by Willem Post on June 15, 2022 at 6:45am

The deranged EU bureaucrats in Brussels had been drinking the UN KOOL-AID, and were eagerly dancing to the UN climate tunes, and telling member countries not to sign long-term gas supply contracts with Russia, because it looked bad regarding fighting global warming.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-plot-is-thickening...

I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP; JUST GOOGLE.

As a result, EU members had to buy gas on the SPOT market, which went through the roof, because Russia supplies gas only to customers with long term contracts, AS DO ALL OTHER GAS SELLERS.

Normally, the SPOT market is just a very small fraction of the total gas market, but now, IN EUROPE, it had become the 800-lb gorilla in the room.

The EU bureaucrats were PISSED at Russia, because they had thought Russia would supply gas to the SPOT market, which it did not.

The EU bureaucrat scheme fell apart, much scrambling to shift the blame, egg-on-faces every where.

IDEOLOGY-DRIVEN EU bureaucrats had shot themselves in the foot, AGAIN

All that happened in 2021, well before Ukraine, with EU gas storage levels at record lows, and WIND AND SOLAR HAVING UNDERPERFORMED FOR MONTHS.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/battery-system-capital...

THE LEVEL OF EU STUPIDITY AND LACK OF REAL-WORLD INSIGHT, AND WIND/SOLAR HUBRIS, ETC., WAS ASTOUNDING TO RATIONAL OBSERVERs

The UN nutcases, and EU bureaucrats, and other Climate Posses are holding hands and dancing in a circle of deranged, positive-feedback madness.

Comment by Willem Post on June 12, 2022 at 5:54am

Germany is continuing to implement programs that reduce CO2, and is committing economic suicide while doing it.

Has anyone figured out what effect reducing “carbon emissions” would have on global temperature?

Yes, actually they have.

There is MAGICC: Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse‐​gas Induced Climate Change (MAGICC was developed by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research under funding by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). 

Using MAGICC, you can evaluate the effects of various emission strategies on temperature change over time. The results are quite interesting.

See https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/12/12/going-to-zero/ 

For an analysis of the entire US going to net zero carbon emissions.
 
It works out to 0.1 degree C by 2050.

One-tenth of a degree, if the entire USA goes to net zero!

WTF?

Is there a way to sue Brussels for malfeasance?

 

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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