Massachusetts and Southcoast Wind Balks Offshore Contracts To 2026
Massachusetts DPU June 30, 2025-Offshore Wind Off Until 2026
On November 8, 2020, the Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker administration approved the contracts for offshore wind power generation from the Mayflower Wind project, today known as SouthCoast Wind.
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities issued an order approving contracts between SouthCoast Wind and Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil power companies.
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In 2023, Massachusetts allowed SouthCoast Wind to walk away from the signed PPA contracts. The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities required SouthCoast to pay 60 million in termination fees.
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Massachusetts allowed new contracts for SouthCoast Wind later in 2023.
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities issued this new offshore agreement, Mass DPU 23-42, on May 31, 2023, over two years ago for SouthCoast Wind. The execution of the Power Purchase Agreement contract negotiations has been extended to November 7, 2024, then to January 15, 2025, and subsequently to March 31, 2025, and then to June 30, 2025.
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The Massachusetts DPU has claimed for years that Bay Staters can expect to save on utility bills with offshore wind power. There is very little offshore wind generating power in the Commonwealth, and ratepayers pay 30 percent more than in other parts of the country.
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State officials and utilities are omitting facts from the public. In 2017, the 1000-megawatt Brayton Point Coal Plant closed. In 2019, the 680-megawatt Pilgrim Nuclear Plant was shut down. In 2024, the 1400-megawatt natural gas Mystic Generating Station was shut down.
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The state has replaced these plants with 100 megawatts of land-based wind power and less than 100 megawatts of offshore wind.
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The Massachusetts energy policy is a catastrophic failure. Time to go SMR, small safe modular nuclear energy.
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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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