The fallacious arguments from Heather Sanborn, Philip Bartlett and Jack Shapiro
- The fallacious arguments from Heather Sanborn, our Public Advocate and Guardian for low electricity prices, and Philip Bartlett, our PUC Commission Chair, overseer of reasonable electricity prices and Jack Shapiro of the Natural Resource Council of Maine, a climate alarmist, is that natural gas is the what id driving higher electricity prices in Maine.
- If that is a fact, then we would expect the rise in natural gas fuel prices would correspond intimately with the rise in retail, "Standard Offer" prices. The generation costs of electricity in the ISO-NE wholesale market is linked to the "Standard Offer", which is described on bills as the "Supply Cost", the retail cost derived from wholesale market( generation) costs.
- The PUC reports the "Standard Offer" price for CMP customers in 2020 was 7.3037 cents per kilowatt hour.
- The PUC reports the "Standard Offer" price for CMP customers in 2026 is 12.721 cents per kilowatt hour.
- ISO-NE reports the average price of natural gas for power plants in New England in 2020 was $2.10 per MMBTU
- ISO-NE reports the average price of natural gas for power plants in New England in 2025 was $6.26 per MMBTU ( An increase of $4.16 per MMBTU ).
- Converting MMBTU to price per kilowatt hour by formula:
- Essentially all generation from natural gas power plants in NE is from "Combined Cycle" plants that have an efficiency rating of 50% producing 500,000 BTUs of electric energy from 1 MMBTU of natural gas fuel.
- 3412 BTUs of electric energy will produce 1 kilowatt hour of usable electricity.
- 500,000BTUs of electric energy will produce 500,000 divided by 3412 = 146.5 kilowatt hours of usable electricity.
- From above, we note that the difference in the price of natural gas fuel from 2020 to 2025 is $4.16/MMBTU
- We would expect an increase of $4.16/MMBTU would increase the electricity cost by 4.16 divided by 146.5 = 2.840 cents per kilowatt hour.
- If natural gas fuel costs are the only factor in the rise of Supply Costs, we expect the 2026 "Standard Offer(SO)" would be 7.3037 cents per kwh + 2,840 cents per kwh = 10.1437 cents per kwh, however the SO price is 12.7210 cents per kwh.
- This extra 2.58 cents per kwh cannot be blamed on natural gas fuel cost increase, so where did it come from? Hint: Programs that ratepayers pay for to subsidize solar, wind and battery storage, i.e. RGGI and RECs.
- Come on, Sanborn, Bartlett, Shapiro. Enough lies.
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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."
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