Two companies bid $22 million for right to develop wind energy in Gulf of Maine
Avangrid Renewables LLC and Invenergy NE Offshore Wind LLC have won the right to put floating turbines in the Gulf of Maine, bringing the state a big step closer to launching its own wind energy industry.
October 29, 2024
Stephen Singer
Press Herald
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Two energy companies submitted winning bids Tuesday to build floating offshore wind turbines in the Gulf of Maine, committing nearly $22 million for half the area available in the largest offshore wind lease sale in the U.S.
Avangrid Renewables LLC of Portland, Ore., and a unit of Avangrid Inc., a subsidiary of Spanish energy giant Iberdrola, bid $4.9 million for 98,565 acres and $6.2 million for nearly 125,000 acres in an auction conducted by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management. The two areas leased by the federal government are about 30 nautical miles from Massachusetts, officials said.
Invenergy NE Offshore Wind LLC, which has two wind leases off the coasts of California and New Jersey, bid $4.9 million for 97,854 acres about 46 nautical miles from Maine and $5.9 million for 117,780 acres about 22 nautical miles from Massachusetts.
The leased areas have the potential to power more than 2.3 million homes, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said.
Federal officials last week rejected Maine’s application for $456 million to build an offshore wind port at Sears Island. The decision by the U.S. Department of Transportation complicates Maine’s effort to establish a presence in the offshore wind energy industry.
The state has said it will continue to seek funding, and the Natural Resources Council of Maine said the lease sale “bolsters Maine’s leadership on floating offshore wind,” with the developers of the lease areas poised to serve as potential commercial partners for a proposed offshore wind port on Sears Island.
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Comment by Willem Post on October 30, 2024 at 6:35am
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Maine environmental nuts who have taken over the government latest folly is to have these monstrosities floating in Maine waters, thereby permanently damaging most of the fisheries and tourist industry.
Those monstrosities will produce electricity at 17 to 19 c/kWh, and utilities will be forced to buy it.
Those same utilities buy electricity from the grid at about 6 c/kWh.
Each year, India adds more CO2 to the atmosphere than all of New England’s TOTAL emissions, because Indian, Chinese and Russian, etc., scientists have determined CO2 plays a less than 1% role warming the planet.
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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