Will U.S. Senator Angus King's $102 million Record Hill Wind DOE Loan Guarantee be Questioned Now?

Trump team questions EIA staff on added costs to transmit and back-up wind power (Bloomberg)

The group also questions whether any technologies or products that have emerged from Energy Department programs “are currently offered in the market without any subsidy” ........

The Energy Information Administration, the department’s statistical arm, is the subject of at least 15 questions that probe its staffing, data and analytical decisions, including whether its forecasts underestimate future U.S. oil and gas production. EIA staff also are asked how they account for added costs to transmit and back-up renewable power........

Two Energy Department employees who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed the questionnaire and said agency staff were unsettled by the Trump team’s information request.........

Should Angus King and Yale "Bayroot" University be Worried About their $102 million Record Hill DOE Loan Guarantee Received for Supposed Breakthrough Technology?

The document also signals which of the department’s agencies could face the toughest scrutiny under the new administration. Among them: the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, a 7-year-old unit that has been a critical instrument for the Obama administration to advance clean-energy technologies.

Since going into operation in 2009, ARPA-E, as it is known, has provided about $1.3 billion in funding to more than 475 projects involving grid-scale batteries, power storage, biofuel production, wind turbines and other technology, according to a May report on the agency. Trump’s energy landing team is seeking “a complete list of ARPA-E’s projects” and wants information about the “Mission Innovation” and “Clean Energy Ministerial” efforts within the department.

Please read the full article here:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-09/trump-team-s-mem...

A Bit of History

Angus King gets a $102 million DOE loan guarantee enabling his project to go forward; he claims breakthrough technology to secure this gift even though it isn't; Congresswoman Chellie Pingree writes a letter recommending they give him the loan guarantee
 
Chellie Pingree is married to S. Donald Sussman, largest media owner in Maine whose media almost always fail to report on the cons of wind. It turns out we learn that all along, he had been the person who gave First Wind's longtime owner, hedge fund D.E. Shaw its start with a $28 million stake

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Comment by Pineo Girl on December 12, 2016 at 7:12pm

I have been just waiting for Anguish to keep his promise to Chellie - I will only run for one term! Hah! Just like he said he would only run for one term as governor!

Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on December 9, 2016 at 5:05pm

Trump Announced today at a Thank You rally that he wants a LIFETIME ban on those awarding government contracts from working for the industries they award those contracts.

Maine, (other states) should do likewise, but extend it to also include those writing rules, regulations, statutes, where industry had an input to these. Nor can they be employed by the state if from the industry in a capacity that could favor their past employer. 

Comment by Pineo Girl on December 9, 2016 at 11:55am

Lets not forget the $34 million dollar GRANT Chellie Pingree arranged for Angus to receive for the project.  No wonder why Angus ran with his tail between his legs when he became a US Senator and was questioned about Record Hill!  

Comment by Art Brigades on December 9, 2016 at 11:08am

And with the Record Hill project now apparently bleeding red ink, will it all hit the fan?

  http://tinyurl.com/gnrz6lo

 

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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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