Massachusetts Offshore Wind Walking Out Of Contracts

Falmouth Massachusetts Ocean Wind Major Issues

 
A. Onshore Cable Landings & Massive Electric Substations
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Falmouth Massachusetts Town Meeting was asked this week to support testing on town land for possible cable landing sites. The proposed cables are 800 megawatts buried through residential neighborhoods to put it in perspective the old Cape nuclear plant generated 680 megawatts. The onshore electric substation is six acres located in the town aquifer. The construction done in the offseason could take up to three years.

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Falmouth is a famous residential, boating, beach, and vacation destination with a large retirement community.

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Town Meeting members voted against playing host to offshore wind turbine developments that could lead to consequences.
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B. Massachusetts offshore wind is no longer viable. 
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"Gov. Maura Healey said Monday, talking in guarded terms about a sector where project costs and energy prices are major considerations." Quote from  Massachusetts State House News Service 4/10/23
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Massachusetts offshore wind companies are now seeking to terminate contracts they previously bid for and won. The Mass Department of Public Utilities determined the contracts “are in the public interest” and approved. Offshore wind companies want to instead re-bid the projects at a higher price when Massachusetts seeks more proposals for offshore wind projects this spring.
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Massachusetts has a goal of procuring 5,600 MW of offshore wind no later than June 30, 2027. 
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The state in order to reach its goals could bypass the MassDPU established procurement process and reward the wind companies to back out of their commitments and allow rebidding of their projects in the Spring. As a result of allowing rebidding Massachusetts electric ratepayers have to foot a larger bill. Simply put the procurement process would lack robust competition and fairness.
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Massachusetts electric ratepayers more than likely will not get the promised rates.

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Comment by Willem Post on April 13, 2023 at 8:13am

Frank,

It is great you are keeping us informed of the Massachusetts offshore wind follies.

The lying and obfuscation and scamming will be reaching a whole new level to maintain PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR EXPENSIVE OFFSHORE PROJECTS THAT WILL DO NOTHING REGARDING CLIMATE CHANGE, BUT WILL SURELY IMPOVERISH ALL OF US, SO THE RICH, IN THE US AND EUROPE, CAN ENJOY HUGE, HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED TAX SHELTERS FOR DECADES.

As negotiated, these offshore projects have a negative sum of present values, if the spreadsheets are recalibrated for higher labor and materials costs, higher inflation, higher interest rates, and supply chain and infrastructure constraints/disruptions 

Every experienced project manager knows the answer

The OWNERS need an increase of about 3.5 to 4.0 c/kWh, in addition to the 8.0 c/kWh that was negotiated, to have a sufficiently positive sum of present values.


THE AVERAGE NEW ENGLAND WHOLESALE RATE IS ABOUT 6 c/kWh, because of low-cost natural gas and nuclear

THIS MEANS A MAJOR ADDITIONAL SCREWING OF RATEPAYERS AND TAXPAYERS AND EVEN MORE ADDITIONS TO GOVERNMENT DEBTS TO ACHIEVE “FEEL-GOOD” 

GO WOKE, GO BROKE

 

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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