When paying $135 per megawatt hour is saving ratepayer money (Cough)
The PUC selected the following 6 projects on behalf of the ratepayers. How do they save us money. It would cost more to pay them by Net Energy Billing
BTW, The Latest Quarterly Report from ISO-NE Reports the Summer of 2024 wholesale average price was $39/MWhr
The Quarterly Report for the Spring of 2024 average wholesale price = $26/MWhr
Report for Winter 2023/2024 average wholesale price = $49/MWhr
Repot for Fall 2023 average wholesale price = $32/MWhr
Just pile the costs of these six projects into "Stranded Costs" aka "Public Policy Costs"
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Comment by Willem Post on December 6, 2024 at 9:13am
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Escalating $135/MWh for 20 years is shown in the table.
The Maine people will be so screwed
The names of owners of these systems are blanked out, because these are sweetheart deals owned by insider Democrats and friends, who are cashing in on the GLOBAL WARMING hoax, which has led to a statewide financial scam that screw the Maine people
$/MWh Annual increase Year 135 0 138.038 0.0225 1 141.143 0.0225 2 144.319 0.0225 3 147.566 0.0225 4 150.886 0.0225 5 154.281 0.0225 6 157.753 0.0225 7 161.302 0.0225 8 164.932 0.0225 9 168.642 0.0225 10 172.437 0.0225 11 176.317 0.0225 12 180.284 0.0225 13 184.34 0.0225 14 188.488 0.0225 15 192.729 0.0225 16 197.065 0.0225 17 201.499 0.0225 18 206.033 0.0225 19 210.669 0.0225 20
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Comment by Dan McKay on December 6, 2024 at 4:57am
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Do you suppose there may be collusion with these characters, look at the exact same price offers and then, consider the PUC has redacted the names of the project developers. There is a wicked smell to this so-called replacement mechanism for tariff rate solar projects.
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Net Zero by 2050 is a Suicide Pact, CO2 ppm is near its lowest level in 600 million years
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CO2, 420 ppm (0.042% presence), a weak IR photon absorber, plays almost no role absorbing IR photons compared to water vapor, 17,700 ppm (1.7% presence near the surface, due to dew, fog, mist), a strong IR photon absorber, which absorbs much of IR surface photons via its many absorption windows.
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Any IR photons not absorbed by WV lose their energy by collision with hugely abundant air molecules.
Almost all IR surface photons are exterminated about 10 meter from the surface.
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WV, being light, 18, compared to air, 29, rises until about 2000 m, where cooler temperatures condense it into clouds. WV ppm is greatly decreased from about 17,700 ppm near the surface to about 800 ppm at 5500 meter.
CO2 does not play any meaningful role regarding IR photon absorption, until WV ppm is greatly reduced, which is above the clouds
Any higher-altitude IR photons are colder, have less energy, have longer wavelengths that mostly are beyond the
15-micrometer absorption window of CO2.
Any such IR photons not absorbed by CO2, may:
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1) lose their energy by collision with hugely abundant air molecules, which are spaced far apart, due to low density, or
2) travel towards outer space, or
3) travel towards earth.
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In all instances, this IR photon activity above the clouds has a very small impact, compared to IR photon impact at the surface, which, each day, evaporates and lifts huge quantities of WV to about 2000 m, especially in the tropics and sub-tropics.
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The tropics and sub-tropics are the engine of world’s weather.
Any harm to rainforests, due to clearcutting, extinguishes its flora and fauna
Clearcutting rain forests for ranching and crops 1) decreases the beneficial evaporation of former rain forest areas, and 2) causes more sunlight on clearcut areas, both of which have contributed to increased world temperatures, likely more than CO2 ever will.
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."
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