Something is Broken in Maine's Renewable Cartel.
Something is broken in Maine's Renewable Cartel. Promises have become lies. Lower emissions of C02 have become higher levels of C02. Lower prices from renewables have become higher prices due to renewables. And reliability of grid scale electricity is now balanced on a knife's edge, as oil has become the last of saving graces to keep the lights glowing.
Even the NRCM has walked back its massive fight to block NECEC. The PUC is still questioning the ratepayer benefits from a giant wind project in Aroostook County which includes 100 miles of new transmission lines, even as Massachusetts has placed their own ratepayers "on the HooK' to pay 40% of the costs. There are no ratepayer benefits to these projects. I beg you to review Willem Post's analysis of the cost of wind projects. His spreadsheets are concise, comprehensive and of many facts.
The promise of a new grid awakening from overwhelming it with renewables has become the ultimate example of the classic proposition of unintended consequences.
Where are our legislators? Not a peep of admission that their previous actions have led us into an energy poverty zone from which there may be no easy escape and people will be to their own devices to keep a bare level of subsistence. $450 relief checks are basically a joke, an attempt to quelch the pain wrought by a legislature with no plan and no expertise in energy knowledge. How many of them can explain why C02 makes climate change dangerous to the planet's survival? They have swallowed the poison pill of ideology, won't own it, won't even open their eyes to the poisoned grid they have handed us.
Now, they want to buy out CMP and Versant, adding billions of dollars to electric bills, as if the damage done isn't enough. Maybe a government shutdown is needed before we have a grid shutdown.
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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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