PPH - CMP wants Mainers who feed grid with solar, wind to pay more
CMP wants Mainers who feed grid with solar, wind to pay more
And of course this Spanish company (with heavy backers from the Middle East) already nailed ratepayers for a $1.5 BILLION transmission upgrade, needed solely for its fellow wind "farmers". Iberdola (CMP) is one of the world's largest developers of wind projects. And only a few years ago it received enormous ARRA stimulus funds, including those for its so called "smart meters" in guinea pig state Maine.
TAKE, TAKE, TAKE. Plant your head firmly in the public trough of this nation of $17 trillion in debt Iberdrola.
Time to wake up and remove this foreign pickpocket's hand from our pockets.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/CMP_wants_Maine_self-generators_who...
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Comment by Kathy Sherman on March 11, 2014 at 10:38am
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This is about a different topic - customer sited, or distributed generation for the customers use, not about wind farms. The customer still needs the grid for the times they are not producing. What CMP is saying is that they want to charge this standby fee, rather than dividing their costs among the remaining customers. I don't know how much distributed generation there is yet in Maine, or whether the generator is paid retail or wholesale when they produce more than they need. In some states, they are paid the higher retail rate, and I think it will cost the other customers a fair amount. A standby charge seems reasonable. You still get charged when you are not using because you are on vacation, and the clllege with solar still needs electricity at night. It will not break the financing of distributed generation.
CMP is not talking yet about the NEW transmission that is needed for reliability to accomodate large wind farms in public I bet, and I wouldn't be surprised if they never do.
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Comment by Martha thacker on March 11, 2014 at 9:31am
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Well, looks like they are starting to build the transmission lines for wind farms. Maybe they finally saved up enough money from the rate hike. Don't think they would have put it off so long if they hadn't known there would be public push back. We've had wind farms with no place for the power to go for quite a few years. Next , there will be transmission lines going to NH and stopping the power .That won't bother MPUC in the least...much less CMP.... Are the other New England states willing to invest in wind? I think not ...they didn't have Baldaci for a gov. or Augusta. And as the price of electricity goes up, so does oil. If there is a connection between Duke Energy (owned by Exxon) and First Wind, we are in for a bumpy ride. The coal ash spill in NC is ruining the water supply for a lot of people. The gov of NC worked for Duke Energy for a couple of decades..he is handling the situation in such a way ...I think Augusta will study it. Removing people from EPA who would investigate the spill and making an announcement that rate payers would pay for it. Not Exxon. Exxon gets subsidies from the govt. and many years pays no taxes. Anybody still investing in the stock market..their stocks should be doing well.
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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