Who is this woman trying to fool?
Laura Dorle with Environment Maine, says "We have plenty of sunshine in Maine." Maybe for about 4 months a year, but with just 4 and a half hours of usable sunshine in the winter, the most useful time to have sunshine, we hardly have enough sun to power our grid. We still need full power from reliable sources like gas to keep the lights on. While I have no problem with solar for individuals to use, I resent paying for it through taxes and subsidies. I happen to have a solar array on my camp that is off the grid. I paid for it 25 years ago when there was no subsidy and have to replace the batteries at my own expense. It serves my needs, but I rarely use it in the winter when it would have trouble keeping up with the load. We can't keep letting these people lie to us and believe it.
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Comment by Frank J. Heller, MPA on September 6, 2015 at 8:33pm
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Mainers living either off the grid or on Islands have had extensive experience with solar panels and wind---any residential wind turbines still running? The result with solar is a small number of full sun days like today, many cloudy or overcast days, and many with intermittent solar energy because of fluctuating cloud cover.
Net metering is one possibility, but you need to meet grid connect specifications---read today's PPH on solar farms, a possible end run around net metering restrictions.
The real drawback is when you have battery storage or inverters, i.e. an electrical system that needs maintenance. Batteries are an expensive p.i.a.
My own view is that solar radiance is best used to heat water that is more easily stored than electricity and can be used to heat your house or to pre-heat hot potable water. Solar PV is best left to discrete solar appliances; outdoor and dock lighting, security systems, chargers, etc.
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on September 5, 2015 at 9:02am
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Independent solar PV for light to medium loads such as homes, and wind for the same loads, coupled with solar thermal or (hybrid thermal /PV) and geothermal-Heating and cooling, would do well for individual uses, however the heavy lifting of fast demand or industrial intense energy will still rely on fossil fuels as part of the mix. To meet fast demand, wind and solar would need reserve capacity in storage. To meet intense energy demands, solar and wind reserves could be depleted quickly. Both would need to be able to generate overcapacity and store that capacity. That storage holds a price not only in invested CO² releases, but other toxins created (to be dealt with) by the storage units.
In Maine, on an individual basis, a good balanced mix of green technologies would work, but having also some fossil fuel (all carbon energy containing fuels) ability for the coldest days (average 10 per winter) would as a safety net may be needed.
Excess energy that is produced could be either grid tied either to the Corporate or a community grid system if or when developed. But Net metering would still be a requirement for either. With today's electronic technologies this is easily a doable thing without much energy consumption of it's own.
Efficient best use practices is also an important part of meeting demand. This is something which may need enforcement imposed on intense energy users such as industry.
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Comment by Pineo Girl on September 4, 2015 at 11:19am
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I agree - Individual solar is the answer - without any subsidy! Environment Maine is desperately struggling to get back into the wind money slipstream! The former Director of Environment Maine got blown out by regular people openly commenting on EM's position! They now will try anything in an attempt to become relevant- not that they ever were!
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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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