The effects of wind generated electricity as it overwhelms Maine's grid and ratepayer budgets
- This chart shows wind generation makes up 27.3% of total Maine generation.
- Wind nameplate generation in Maine is a little over 1000 megawatts
- Wind generation in Maine is currently so spread out across the state, it affects nearly all distribution infrastructure.
- Wind generation is not a good match to how and when Mainers use electricity.
- Wind generation has a negative effect on Maine's grid at 27.3%
- Imagine another 1000 megawatts of wind generation, starting in Aroostook County and spreading south through Maine's distribution system.
- Another 1000 megawatts would increase the wind influence on Maine's grid to over 50%.
- It would also guarantee furthering a upward trend in Maine gas and oil plant production to balance the grid
- Expensive wind makes for expensive natural gas, a unique characteristic of the New England grid which is reliant on natural gas for 50% of its electricity.
- Forcing the Maine ratepayers to pay a billion dollars plus to further erode Maine's grid is very irresponsible.
- Regulatory review of this Aroostook County project should be stopped immediately for expert review to the impacts it would have on Maine's distribution system.
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Comment by Willem Post on October 7, 2023 at 4:23pm
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Dan,
You are confusing the distribution grids, owned by utilities, with ISO-NE controlled/managed high voltage grids.
All of Maine's wind turbine systems are connected to the NE high voltage grid, and are entirely under ISO-NE control.
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Comment by Dan McKay on October 7, 2023 at 9:00am
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Willem,
As you know, the grid is made up of a multitude of local nodal points continuously adjusting to input from generation and output to satisfy demand. These nodes reflect substations owned by distribution companies. The variability of demand is anticipated and always has been. The additional variability of wind complicates and erodes the functionability of this substation switchgear.
Wind definitely degrades the grid. A degradation of the grid is degradation to electricity delivery.
As we have noted, the onslaught of solar in Maine has created angst in CMP operations.
I don't think wind at 50% of Maine's generation is a very comfortable situation to be in.
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Dan,
All Maine wind systems, never call them farms, are connected to the New England high voltage grid,, which has an adequate gas turbine power plant fleet to counteract the variable output of wind, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365, year after year.
In case of low winds, that fleet will increase its output to counteract the shortfall of wind electricity
In case of high winds, the wind turbines will be locked and feathered, until those wind stay below 50 MPH, and the fleet will provide all the shortfall of electricity
As you see, wind can exist on the grid, with a lot of NECESSARY AND EXPENSIVE life support, whereas the fleet can exist on the grid without life support
THE WIND TURBINES HAVE ZERO IMPACT ON MAINE DISTRIBUTION GRIDS
Adding another 1000 MW of wind in northern Maine and connecting it to the NE HV grid makes no difference regarding Maine distribution grids
THE FLEET HAS TO DEAL WITH THE INCREASED, VARIABLE QUANTITIES OF ELECTRICITY
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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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