RENEWABLE MANDATE ..A REGRESSIVE TAX ???


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Gouged by the Wind Renewable fuel mandates are raising electricity prices in the states. May 4, 2012
Politicians keep promising to reduce energy prices, but they keep ignoring one easy step: repeal renewal energy standards. Twenty-nine states have these rules requiring local utilities to purchase between 20% and 33% of their electric power from renewable sources. They were enacted over the past decade when lawmakers bought into the fad about cheap "clean energy." Their real effect has been to force utilities to pay above-market prices for electricity, which means higher electric bills for consumers.
No state has learned that lesson the hard way more than Minnesota. In 2007 the legislature mandated that utilities ramp up their renewables to 12% this year and 25% by 2025.
The Minnesota Rural Electric Association, which represents about 50 small utilities serving about 650,000 rural residents, reports that its members lost more than $70 million in 2011 because of the high cost of wind power. "Right now we're paying for wind power we don't need, we can't use and can't sell," says association executive director Mark Glaess.
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WHO STARTED  THIS ABSURDITY IN MAINE ??
PLEASE  READ THE FOLLOWING:    
 

Maine

Legislature Adopts Portfolio Standard

On May 29, 1997, Governor Angus S. King signed into law a bill to restructure the state's electric power industry. As of March 1, 2000, the state's investor-owned utilities will no longer own power plants. These utilities will continue to be regulated as transmission and distribution providers, and retail customers will be able to choose their electricity provider in a competitive market. Recovery of stranded costs has been referred to the PUC for adjudicatory proceedings by July 1, 1999.

The law establishes a renewable portfolio standard as a component of power provider licensing, which requires each competitive electricity provider to include no less than 30% of its supply from renewable resources, including hydro. The law also requires the PUC to establish information disclosure standards for competitive electricity providers so that consumers can make informed market choices and to establish a program allowing retail customers to make voluntary contributions to fund renewables-related research and development (R&D). 

 

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IN  THE PAST  LEGISLATIVE  SESSION   GOVERNOR  LEPAGE TRIED  TO  LIFT  THE CEILING  OFF THE  100 MW  CAP ON HYDROPOWER SO  AS TO  ALLOW  LARGE  HYDRO GENERATORS  TO COUNT AS RENEWABLES , HIS ATTEMPT  FAILED , REJECTED  BY  ALL  DEMOCRATS  AND  A FEW  REBUPLICANS , NOTABLY STACY FITTS CHAIRMAN  OF  THE UTILITY COMMITTE .

THOSE  FOLKS  EVIDENTLY WANT  HIGHER  ENERGY  COSTS

PLEASE  READ  THE  PREDICAMENT  OF  MINNESOTA RATEPAYERS AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT  IS  IN  STORE  FOR  MAINE  IF THE RENEWABLES  MANDATES ARE NOT STOPPED .

KEEP  IN  MIND THAT MAINE  IS A  CLEAN  ENERGY STATE ALREADY AND  ONLY ELITIST MINDS AND MONEY DRIVEN ENTREPRENEURS WOULD  WANT  TO  RAISE YOUR ELECTRICAL BILL.....IT IS  OF INTEREST THAT WHEN CAMPAINING FOR  A  YET  HIGHER RPS  MANDATE  LAST WINTER , BETH  NAGUSKY  AND  DYLAN VOORHEES ( NRCM ) RECOGNIZED  THAT  THE PRICES OF ELECTRICITY  WOULD  FIRST  GO UP BUT  THEN  AFTER  FEW  YEARS WILL GO DOWN WOULD  THOSE  HIGHER  RPS  MANDATES  THEY PROPOSED  IN  A REFERENDUM  BECOME LAW (THEIR HONESTY  WAS DEEPLY  APPRECIATED NONETHELESS)

 

LUCKILY THAT REFERENDUM DIED  FROM  A LACK  OF  SIGNATURES , THEIR  SUPPORTERS WAITING  NOW FEVERISHLY  TO  SEE  IF  THE  5TH ATTEMPT  TO  CONVINCE  THE US CONGRESS TO EXTEND  THE PTC WILL FINALLY WORK NOW.

 

PLEASE WRITE  TO  YOUR  LEGISLATORS  AND TELL THEM TO  STOP THIS FOLLY

 RESCIND  THE  RPS  , REGGIE  MANDATES AND THE EXPEDITED  WIND LAW   NOW

IT  IS  TIME  TO  PREPARE FOR  THE NEXT  LEGISLATIVE  SESSION .

CALL YOUR  ELECTED  OFFICIALS  ! QUESTION  THOSE  WHO ARE RUNNING AGAIN ON  THE EXCESSIVELY  IMPORTANT QUESTIONS RAISESD  ABOVE . DEMAND  THEIR POSiTION UNEQUIVOCALLY  !

 

 MONIQUE  

 
 
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on May 6, 2012 at 2:57pm

thank you

U.S. Sen Angus King

THE UNTOLD STORY OF RECORD HILL WIND

The Untold Story of Record Hill Wind, continued

 

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

******** IF LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, GOOGLE THEM*********

(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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