Renewable Portfolio Standards
Maine and Massachusetts have the greatest potential to grow their renewable capacity while Connecticut has the least.
To be “Green” in New England is a matter of law, not individual choice. With the exception of Vermont, every other New England State has a Renewable Portfolio Standard which mandates a certain percentage of electricity sold within the State will be derived from renewable sources. Each year, this percentage increases at 1% for all States, except Connecticut, which increases by 1.375%.
Currently, wind power development is the major renewable used to meet the increasing percentages of State’s Renewable Portfolio Standards.
To assure that companies who buy and resell electricity ( Competitive Electricity Suppliers ) are buying and reselling the legal amount of Renewables, they purchase Renewable Energy Credits (REC). REC’s are just that, a credit applied to the renewable generator for the creation of electricity using “renewable “ resources. The more electricity generated by the “ Renewable “, the more REC’s generated.
Competitive electricity suppliers can purchase the Renewable Energy Credits generated by renewables in another state and use these RECs to meet another State’s RPS. The REC price is determined by auction and suppliers who sell electricity without having acquired the RPS percentage of RECs will have to make an Alternate Compliance Payment to the State, which, for the purpose of assuring adequate funding for the expansion of renewable generation, is set at a price based on the costs of constructing “ Renewables “ , which means wind developments.
New England is at the “ Cliff “, where the percentage of electricity generated from “renewables” to “conventional” sources won’t meet the percentages mandated in the State’s Renewable Portfolio Standards. This will mean
“ exploding “ costs to the ratepayers and “exploding” wealth to the wind developments.
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Comment by alice mckay barnett on January 4, 2013 at 1:41pm
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Roper, did you find the answer?
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Comment by Dan McKay on January 2, 2013 at 3:09pm
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Comment by Harrison Roper on January 2, 2013 at 2:10pm
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There may be a serious misunderstanding behind using wind power RPS credits to reach renewable goals. Are RPS credits based on reality, or on a theoretical pipe dream?
Industrial wind plants are judged by their Installed Capacity, but they rarely, if ever, generate that much power. Industrial wind facilities have been in operation in Maine since Mars Hill Went on line in 2006. Since then Stetson I and Stetson II were built, as well as Kibby Mountain, Rollins, and Record Hill. According to the Federal Energy Regulation Commission website, these had installed capacity of 374 MW. BUT, according to the Federal Energy Regulation Commission website, in the full year beginning October 2011 they generated just 24% of their installed capacity.
Are the owners of these wind farms collecting renewable credits based on installed capacity or actual power generated? Maine's windfarms had a Capacity Factor of just 24.72% for the year ending September 30, 2012. There's a huge difference.
Harrison Roper Houlton, ME.
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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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