New Law Enables Funding for Intervenors in Maine PUC Cases

  • LD 2018 – An Act To Implement Recommendations Regarding the Incorporation of
    Equity Considerations in Regulatory Decision Making
  • #2022-00180 Commission Initiated Inquiry into Intervenor Funding Ru...  This docket was recently opened due to a new law passed in the Legislature and will be updated as the case progresses.  Under current law, intervenor funding is available to qualifying organizations.  Please contact Harry Lanphear at 207-287-1353 with questions. 

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Comment by Dan McKay on July 10, 2022 at 7:29am
2. Funding sources. If the commission finds pursuant to subsection 1 that an intervenor in a commission proceeding qualifies for funding, the commission may, consistent with rules adopted by the commission pursuant to subsection 3: 
A. Order a utility involved in the commission proceeding to compensate the intervenor. Compensation provided by a utility under this paragraph may be recovered in rates. 
or B. Provide compensation to the intervenor from the Public Utilities Commission Regulatory Fund established pursuant to section 116 and filing fees, subject to the commission's determination that funds are available for that purpose. 
Comment by Dan McKay on July 10, 2022 at 7:20am

LD 2018 includes language in Title 35-A that will enhance the opportunity for environmental justice populations and other groups to participate in Commission cases.

 

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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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