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                                                 132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
                                                  FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
 
 Legislative Document                                                                                                                                            No. 186
 H.P. 119 House of Representatives,                                                                                                      January 14, 2025
                                          An Act to Clarify the Public Utilities Commission's Authority to
                                          Establish Time-of-use Pricing for Standard-offer Service   
                           Reference to the Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology suggested and ordered printed.  
                                                                                                                                             ROBERT B. HUNT Clerk 
Presented by Representative RUNTE of York. 
Cosponsored by Senator LAWRENCE of York and
 Representative: SACHS of Freeport
 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
 Sec. 1. 35-A MRSA §3212, sub-§4-B, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 677, Pt. B, §2, is amended to read: 
 4-B. Demand response and energy efficiency. The commission may incorporate cost-effective demand response, including the use of time-of-use pricing, and energy efficiency into the supply of standard-offer service. The commission shall encourage entities based in this State that are not otherwise either a standard-offer service provider or its affiliate to participate in supplying cost-effective demand response or energy efficiency pursuant to this subsection.
  Sec. 2. 35-A MRSA §3212, sub-§4-C, as enacted by PL 2005, c. 677, Pt. B, §2, is amended to read: 
 
 4-C. Authority to establish various contract lengths and terms. For the purpose of providing over a reasonable time period the lowest price for standard-offer service to residential and small commercial customers, the commission, with respect to residential and small commercial standard-offer service, may, in addition to incorporating cost effective demand response, including the use of time-of-use pricing, and energy efficiency pursuant to subsection 4‑B and to the extent authorized in section 3210‑C, incorporating the energy portion of any contracts entered into pursuant to section 3210‑C, establish various standard-offer service contract lengths and terms. 
                                                                                   SUMMARY  
This bill clarifies that the Public Utilities Commission may incorporate time-of-use pricing for the supply of standard-offer service.

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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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