Where the hell is wind and solar?
"New England ratepayers faced $536 million in extra charges over 13 months to keep a soon-to-be-retired Massachusetts natural gas plant running in case of regional power shortages, according to grid operator ISO-New England."
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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on August 27, 2023 at 3:12pm
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From Covid to Climate Change: Vehicles for Global Authoritarianism
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Comment by Dan McKay on August 25, 2023 at 12:49pm
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These payments are supplemental reliability payments directly attributable to the failures of wind and solar to produce when called on. These prices should be added to the cost of wind and solar, along with federal and state subsidies, renewable energy credits, RGGI costs, long term contracts (PPA)
Natural Gas-fired generation, being the predominant price setter in the ISO-NE wholesale market, is not affected by price offers from wind and solar, even when wind and solar offers a zero or negative price. The wholesale price from NG is paid to all generators.
Wind and solar that makes it to the grid was loving it when NG prices were extraordinarily high for a few months.
Wind and solar are nothing but parasitic electricity and doesn't belong on the grid.
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Comment by Willem Post on August 25, 2023 at 8:22am
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That plant is needed in case of when the wind is not blowing ENOUGH and the sun is not shining ENOUGH (which happens almost every day in the morning and in the evening, and often in between), and when the panels are covered with snow and ice.
Twenty years ago, in 2020, Germany sealed its disastrous fate.
It embarked on the super-expensive ENERGIEWENDE to reduce CO2, which is a critical life gas for fauna and flora
Be like us, they said. Ha, ha
GERMANY HAS DOZENS OF SUCH RESERVE PLANTS, BECAUSE IT HAS MUCH MORE OF UNRELIABLE, EXPENSIVE WIND AND SOLAR SYSTEMS INSTALLED, WHEN INFLATION AND INTEREST RATES WERE MUCH LOWER AND ENERGY PRICES WERE MUCH LOWER
Germany is slowly, but surely, de-industrializing, because energy-intensive industries cannot be competitive on world markets
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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