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Maine has plenty of hydro and biomass resources to comply with our own state renewable portfolio requirements for now and the foreseeable future. Maine has a problem with an onslaught of the variable resource wind plants replacing base load outputs. Removing the 100 megawatt limit on hydro resources would be meaningless to this wind onslaught as long as Southern New England continues to make large hydro ineligible for their renewable standards.  Their current standards is why so much wind is being proposed for Maine lands.

   Their current standards that make most of Maine biomass ineligible is why the state's biomass industry is shutting down( low REC income ) but with these shutdowns and the entire state's wind output of renewable energy credits heading for southern New England, the REC prices in Maine will become undersupplied and consequently the price for them will rise, allowing biomass to restart at a higher cost to the Maine ratepayer.
    With wind plant output providing electrons to more of the Maine electric load at artificially low prices due to premium prices received from power purchase contracts with southern New England utilities, Maine will be in a much tenuous position of needing a resource able to react to load when the wind doesn't blow. The cost for such resource will soar as expanding and immediate needs of reliability always is to the advantage of the supplier.
    Maine is at the mercy of Southern New England renewable standards that favor intermittent resources. With the increasing intermittency of power(wind) produced in Maine because of enabling by out of market areas, Maine will find itself at the mercy of dispatchable resources who have lost a lot of income to the exceedingly market share gathered  by wind resources. These dispatchable resources have lost base load output revenue and will make up this income with the more valuable resource of emergency generation.  
      Biomass will bide their time for now, but when they become needed to supply both, renewable and dispatchable emergency power to Maine, they will have a market well set up for tremendous profits, thanks to the wind that comes and goes.  

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Comment by alice mckay barnett on March 26, 2016 at 10:54am

Does southern New England care?    

 

Maine as Third World Country:

CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power

 

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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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