One More Time Why Government Can't be Trusted

Sneaking an energy bill into passage requires ingenuity. Sometimes it means delivering it during an abnormally timed committee session. Such is LD 1730, originally a "Concept Bill" which means a bill with no specifics, so no one knows what it is. LD 1730 escapes ambiguity at an opportune moment as the standard offer for electricity is now over 2 cents per kilowatt hour more. 
The best way to explain LD 1730 is as it was brought forward by three New Hampshire journalists, OPINION: Want Lower Electric Bills? It’s Time to Try Competition - NH Journal who wrote on October 5, 2025:
"Similarly, there are now easily accessible alternatives that have reached a level of maturity, making them a genuine choice. One can now purchase simple, portable, plug-in, off-grid solar and battery combinations at a combined lifetime cost of about 12 cents a kilowatt hour (including the cost of replacing the batteries after a decade or so). Compare that to what you’re paying to your utility. Increasingly, consumers will have truly competitive options when looking for independence from the utilities."
Sounds reasonable until you realize the Democrats are playing a long game that would have solar, wind and batteries destined to replace what ISO-NE now calls "Balancing Resources" or "Dispatchable Generation" served by natural gas plants, hydro plants and oil-fired plants. Pillar Two: Balancing Resources Which is to say, the more solar and batteries replacing reliable generation, the more value attached to the reliable generation which means more costs to the ratepayers. 
 
Another unintentional consequence is the loss of electricity delivered by CMP and Versant. As delivery of electricity is a fixed cost in one sense, reducing the amount of kilowatt hours deliverable reduces revenues to the utilities and rate increases are a certainty. Again, the favored renewable resources will not replace dispatchable resources for obvious reasons, it will not lower electricity prices. 
 
But the renewable lobby will not be stopped. As president Reagan said, " If it stops moving" the government will subsidize it.  
 
IMO, LD 1730 is a precursor to Efficiency Maine Trust providing rebates for these pv/battery systems so many more people will be sucked in. Does the term "Beneficial Electrification" come to mind?
 
IMO, this leads to "Regulatory Capture" where the government incentives allow the government to "Capture" control over the electricity used in individual homes just for falling for their so-called " Beneficial Electrification"

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THE UNTOLD STORY OF RECORD HILL WIND

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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."

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