Making Net Energy Billing Costs a Tax, What Could Go Wrong?
The proposal of moving Net Energy Billing costs to the general fund was brought up during the March 27th EUT Committee hearing as a way to remove these costs from electric bills.
An April 2023 report from the Office of the Public advocate breaks out the costs of Net Energy Billing that shows up in rates:
NEB costs are substantial. $216,400,000 in 2023.
The NEB problem is not going away by having the taxpayers pay for it instead of ratepayers. The same issue that makes NEB unpopular with it in rates will simply become the same issue in taxes. The benefits NEB participants receive from payments made by non-participants will become payments from taxpayers of Maine versus Maine people who pay little or no taxes.
But, the worse scenario that this cost shift will enable, is another trough for the renewable piggies to feed from. Lobbyists are licking their chops over this proposal and Democrats are ready to accommodate the renewable industry by increasing funding to this account well above NEB costs, as they always do with their tax and spend mentality.
Just like the enormous funding increase to the low-income assistance program to pay bills for delinquent electric customers to shut down their complaints of high electric costs, this proposal to hide NEB costs in the general fund is to shut down complaints over the high costs of Net Energy Billing.
Isn't Government clever in the way they handle complaints at the same time increasing your taxes?
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Comment by Dan McKay on March 28, 2025 at 12:46pm
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Consider the Govrnors Energy Office. Created by Governor LePage. It had 2 people. Now, with a Democrat Governor and a Democrat Legislature it has 21 staff members and the new budget has it becoming a full-fledged department. Do not ever give these Democrats an opportunity to expand a program or a tax funded account.
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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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