Rhode Island PPA South Coast Wind 5th Postponement

SouthCoast Wind, in early 2023, after signing contracts, notified the Rhode Island Energy Facility Board that their project was no longer viable under the terms they had already negotiated with state utility companies and planned to bid for new contracts and pay multimillion-dollar fines for their self-imposed decision. 
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Next, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut announced New England’s first offshore wind multi-state coordination memorandum of understanding (MOU) in October 2023. The MOU was the first of its kind in the United States and the first to fail. Connecticut dropped out. Rhode Island may be next. 
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Rhode Island Energy selected 200 megawatts from SouthCoast Wind for its share of the project. Massachusetts selected around 1000 megawatts.
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1200 megawatts of wind power can not power 240,000 homes as conventionally formulated. Wind turbines use parasitic electricity, require maintenance, blade accidents and wear, sudden wind shifts cause shutdowns, operate at full capacity on a scale up to around 44 mph, shut down in high winds, and produce no power under 6 mph. The downtime requires a battery backup or a fossil fuel source. 
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Many offshore wind turbines have 40-kilowatt diesel backup generators needing refueling.  
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As of June 2025, the PPA power purchase agreement in Rhode Island has been postponed four times and now appears to be headed to a fifth time. 
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Rhode Island Energy posted a new schedule, which sets a deadline of November 1, 2025, to finalize a power purchase agreement. Rhode Island Energy may terminate negotiations and cancel the agreement if not successful by the new date. (see link)
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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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