Massachusetts Power Bills Offshore Wind Boondoggle

Offshore Wind & Fossil Fuel Energy Mismanagement 
7th PPA Power Purchase Agreement Failure Due
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On April 27, 2022, then-Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey stated, in an interview with local news, "Remember, I stopped two gas pipelines from coming into this state."
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Fossil fuel plants and pipelines have been shut down as offshore wind companies backed out of Power Purchase Agreements. Politicians anticipated thousands of megawatts of offshore wind power, but offshore contractors backed out of or have been unable to reach power agreements with power companies. 
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SouthCoast Wind, in August 2023, backed out of a power purchase agreement and agreed to pay more than $60 million to the state’s three leading utilities to terminate the signed power purchase agreements it had negotiated to build its wind farm. A major renewable energy goal setback. The state allowed SouthCoast out of a signed agreement. Failure  (#1 ) 
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Massachusetts power purchase agreement deadlines shifted from August 2024 to November 7, 2024, January 15, 2025, March 31, 2025, and June 30, 2025. Failures  (#5) 
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The current date for the Massachusetts  SouthCoast Wind PPA is December 31, 2025. (#6) 
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If this date is not met, it will be the seventh time Massachusetts has failed to achieve a PPA Power Purchase Agreement.  (#7)  
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Note # The Mystic Power Plant in Everett, Massachusetts, New England's largest fossil fuel plant at 1400 megawatts, closed on May 31, 2024. 
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MassDPU 23-42 SouthCoast Wind Power Purchase Agreement December 31, 2025 
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Despite Offshore Vineyard Wind 1 actively generating power, with over 400 megawatts (MW)  Massachusetts power bills have seen significant hikes, with residential electricity rates jumping around 50% since 2020, and delivery charges increasing substantially (e.g., Eversource up 33.5%, National Grid up 32% since 2023) due to higher energy markets and grid upgrades, leading to some households seeing over 50% increases in winter heating bills and overall high energy burdens.
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Pipelines and fossil power plants should never have been shut down before the offshore wind  PPA, Power Purchase Agreements. Politicians put the cart before the horse, putting the general public at risk.
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Heating bills have become as high as a second mortgage. 

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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."

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