Republicans want changes to bring energy costs down in Maine
HOW ABOUT LOOKING AT WHY MAINE FOSSIL FUEL ELECTRIC GENERATION PLANTS ARE RAMPING UP OUTPUT SINCE 2019(BEFORE THE UKRAINE DEBACLE)
CHASING ZERO CARBON IS FUTILE.
Republicans want changes to bring energy costs down in Maine (wabi.tv)
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Comment by Dan McKay on January 27, 2023 at 5:58am
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Willem,
Maine has one oil-fired electric plant over 25 MW. The Maine people should buy this plant from NextEra and forget about buying CMP and Versant
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Comment by Willem Post on January 26, 2023 at 9:00pm
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Dan Canadian oil would be ok, but Maine needs to build out storage to protect against interruptions
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Willem,
How about relying on Canada for oil?
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Russian gas, oil, coal, and other resources will find their ways onto the global markets via India, China, etc., no matter how many sanctions are imposed on Russia.
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The Ukraine situation has nothing to do with freedom, democracy, 4 Ukraine provinces in the east, Crimea, etc.
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The big tragedy is, the brainwashed/deluded Ukraine people are, thus far, willing to be cannon fodder to accomplish it all., including "getting their land back".
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NATO countries, etc., provide the weapons in an antiseptic way, i.e., not getting their hands dirty, none of their people gets injured/killed, no damage in their countries.
What a good deal, if Russia would only co-operate by collapsing.
- Natural gas fired power was ALWAYS much cheaper than New England offshore wind, because gas fired power is not weather-dependent, not intermittent, not variable, requires no grid extension/augmentation, requires no backup/standby plants, does not kill birds, bats and whales, does not decimate the fishing industry, and does not require subsidies equal to about 50% of the all-in LCOE of an offshore wind project
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Fossil fuels, oil, gas, coal will settle down to long term trends, as soon as Biden stops exporting to Europe, etc, as part of geo-political games of the State Department
The last thing Maine needs is more variable, intermittent, weather-dependent wind and solar, which have many costs that are carefully hidden, to make wind and solar LOOK a lot less costly than they are.
Never rely on foreigners for your electricity, such as Canada. It may not be there in the future
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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