RGGI can someone explain how they get money and where does the money go?

I do not quite understand RECs and RGGI.  Turbines do not need to make electricity in order to sell RECs?
Patricia Aho, Acting Commissioner of the Maine Dept of Environmental Protection, will be joined by State House lobbyists Pete Didisheim (Natural Resources Council of Maine) and
Ben Gilman (Maine Chamber of Commerce) to discuss environmental policies
addressed by the 125th Maine Legislature during the First Regular Session
(Winter/Spring 2011). Panelists will provide an overview and analysis of recent
environmental policies taken up by Maine lawmakers, and especially the
regulatory reform bill, LD 1 which makes more than a dozen changes to state law,
including:
  • Establishing a voluntary program in the Department of Environmental Protection for businesses that self-report environmental violations.
  • Authorizing agencies to do cost-benefit analyses of proposed rules.
  • Renaming an existing state program the Business Ombudsman Program and requiring it to help resolve problems between businesses and state agencies.
  • Creating the Bureau of the Special Advocate in the Secretary of State's Office, to advocate for small-business interests in the state regulatory process.
  • Reducing the Board of Environmental Protection from 10 members to seven and limiting the board's rule-making authority.
SPEAKERS:
Patricia Aho, Acting Commissioner of the Maine Dept of Environmental Protection:

Ms. Aho has served as deputy commissioner of the agency since February, and replaces previous Acting Commissioner and longtime Maine DEP Bureau of Air Quality Director, Jim Brooks.
A native of Boothbay Harbor who
graduated from Nasson College and earned a law degree from Western New England College, Aho has
been in the forefront of environmental advocacy for over 25 years and has been
active on many of the critical issues facing Maine, including energy efficiency,
greenhouse gas and petroleum regulation. She is Maine DEP’s primary liaison with
both the Maine Legislature and the Governor’s Office, as well as representing
the agency on several state and regional committees, including the Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

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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."

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