Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine

Tariff the solar and wind developments in Maine

No doubt, President Trump is going to heavily tariff solar panels coming from foreign trading partners and remove federal tax incentives and direct subsidies to solar and wind projects, but Maine could also jump upon the bandwagon and tariff existing and future solar and wind developments and stop the excessive burden on ratepayers.

As everyone knows, Maine is being assauted by Out-of State Developers using Maine land to swindle millions upon millions of dollars from ratepayers, Well, they also use Maine's electric infrastructure to pump their massive amount of electrons into. Solar, especially uses the distribution system which often becomes disrupting to adjoining customers paying to use the infrastructure.

Public Utilities Commission Chair Philip L Bartlett II, during a PUC session involving rate modifications to pay for Net Energy Billing, opined on generators and their use of electric lines. He asked Mr. Gordon, representing Canton Mountain Wind and Saddleback Mountain Wind some interesting questions:

The following is directly from the transcript from the PUC proceedings:

MR. BARTLETT: Would you agree, I mean, that given that these are public policy charges, they're advancing a public policy objective, that everybody should be contributing something towards those costs?

MR. GORDON: Absolutely. Absolutely.

MR. BARTLETT: Okay.

MR. GORDON: And we've said all along that we're very willing to pay our fair share of what those are.

MR. BARTLETT: But in your view, your fair share is pretty de minimus? It's only based on the very few kilowatt hours you're using?

MR. GORDON: It's equivalent to my usage of the electric system, yes.

MR. BARTLETT: But -- well, so that's an interesting -- because your usage of the system, you're -- there's a difference, I think, between the amount of consumption versus your use of the system because you're -- I mean, aren't you

connected at a high voltage because of the fact that you're pumping electrons onto the system?

MR. GORDON: Which makes it --

MR. BARTLETT: Which makes you a high user of the electric system, certainly of the transmission system.

MR. GORDON: Yes, as a producer of electricity which ultimately, at the end of the day, is beneficial all around to folks in Maine.

MR. BARTLETT: Right. And it's beneficial particularly based on the policies that the legislature has put in place supporting renewable energy and greenhouse gas reductions.

MR. GORDON: Okay.

MR. BARTLETT: I mean, is that fair?

MR. GORDON: That as a generator, I use the transmission system?

MR. BARTLETT: That as a renewable --

MR. GORDON: -- service the load, yes.

MR. BARTLETT: Yeah. But you're describing the benefits you're providing to the state of Maine which are, in significant part, because of the renewable policies that the state has adopted.

MR. GORDON: Yeah.

MR. BARTLETT: So, I mean, isn't a hybrid -- some sort of a hybrid approach, some combination of a fixed -variable rate a better reflection of the contribution -- or the benefit -- the contribution that individual ratepayers should be paying?

MR. GORDON: Are you asking whether, as a generator, I should be paying a share of the NEB?

MR. BARTLETT: Yeah, as a user -- I think as a -- yeah, as someone connected to the system.

MR. GORDON: I completely disagree with that premise.

MR. BARTLETT: So you don't feel like you should be paying -- that generators should have to contribute towards the public policy cost of the state?

MR. GORDON: Only in the sense that it is a user -- as a consumer of electricity on the system.

MR. BARTLETT: So we're backing away from the idea of somebody using the system, but you -- so you limit it to consumption?

MR. GORDON: I limit it to consumption.

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U.S. Sen Angus King

THE UNTOLD STORY OF RECORD HILL WIND

The Untold Story of Record Hill Wind, continued

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.

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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