PPH - NY's Con Ed proposes to deliver Maine wind energy to Boston

Con Ed is proposing a partnership with a group of energy developers called Maine Power Express LLC to deliver northern Maine wind power to Boston markets. Under the plan, MPX would build a 630-megawatt wind facility in Penobscot and Aroostook counties called County Line Wind. Then the partnership would deliver that power via an underground power line on an existing energy corridor that eventually connects to an underwater transmission line to Boston, according to a press release issued Wednesday.

http://www.pressherald.com/2017/08/02/con-ed-proposes-new-wind-farm...

The County Line bid files can be found here:

https://macleanenergy.com/83d/83d-bids/

Excerpt:

ConEd press release:

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=61493&p=irol-newsAr...

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Comment by Paula D Kelso on August 4, 2017 at 8:30am

None of this news reporting does more than skim the surface. By the time anyone purporting to be a news reporter (obviously none of them think of themselves as journalists) looks into the details, it will be too late for the public to find out all the enormous implications for Maine and its people.

Comment by Mollie Straub on August 3, 2017 at 5:37am

This quote is from the proposal. "County Line Wind is appropriately sited for wind development; specifically, the Project area is within an expedited wind permitting zone established by statute to direct wind development to specific areas of the State of Maine." Molunkus is no longer in the expedited area. So maybe it is safe...

Comment by Barry @ SaveOurSeaShore on August 2, 2017 at 4:15pm

yep...a NY Con!

Comment by Long Islander on August 2, 2017 at 3:44pm

With the info provided in the above excerpt, we see they are talking about 110,000 acres, which upon conversion, equals approximately 172 square miles. I suspect that the blue circle on the map is just a point on the map and the 172 square mile area is considerably larger, straddling parts of both Penobscot and Aroostook Counties. Places like Molunkus could be right in the cross hairs.

Comment by Eskutassis on August 2, 2017 at 3:16pm

This should be a target for us. If there are no wind turbines, there will be no power. I believe this is in the area that turbines were defeated before.

 

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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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