Questions for the EUT Committee
Chair Lawrence, Chair Sachs and Fellow Energy Consumers of the EUT Committee,
As I was preparing testimony on LD 1949, An Act Regarding Energy Fairness, I became curious about a number of items:
If renewables are reducing electricity prices, why are there a record number of people enrolled in LIAP?
Is natural gas the reason for high electricity prices or the reason we have electricity?
If a renown solar company operating in Maine for many years indicates solar projects realize
their payback of CAPEX costs after 7 to 12 years, why are contracts arranged to last 20 years?
If the Net Energy Billing projects truly confined all their output to “Behind the Meter” and
utilized battery storage, wouldn't they save on paying retail supply and distribution costs
without relying on other ratepayers to subsidize their savings?
If the PUC has to worry about greenhouse gases in every action they undertake, can they really
provide Maine people with reasonable electricity rates?
If Maine is successful in achieving “Carbon Zero”, will the global climate be under control?
If ISO-NE has to pay generators to store oil to provide electricity for winter months when
natural gas supply becomes scarce, do wholesale costs of electricity rise?
Why are “Community Solar Projects” in Maine revoking their Maine Class I and IA
Certifications?
Would the burden on ratepayers paying for NEB be lessened by buying out contracts from
developers who have paid off CAPEX costs? Could they maintain solar output with battery
storage and stop being paid for using the grid as a battery?
Does the blackout event that occurred in Spain and Portugal worry you?
Why are the PJM and Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) petitioning FERC
to allow more natural gas-fired electrical generation plants to be constructed?
Why is the ISO-NE CEO calling on FERC to help in collaborating the interests of electricity
supply with natural gas supply?
If natural gas is the cause of high electricity prices, why isn't legislature providing bills to
remove the obstacles keeping the price high?
Do you consider the fact that renewable energy developers claiming they require
confidentiality to keep their finances secret while ratepayers are underwriting their projects
as inconsistent?
Who do you think is getting better treatment from the EUT Committee lately, the PUC or
the Renewable Energy Lobbyists?
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Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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