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New England has multiple wind-rich areas ripe for development, making renewable energy an exciting possibility for the region’s future. With zero emissions and no fuel costs, the addition of significant amounts of wind energy will help achieve federal and state environmental goals, mitigate wholesale electricity price volatility caused by wide-ranging prices of traditional fuels, and help alleviate fuel diversity concerns under normal system operating conditions.

However, renewable resources such as wind are not always capable of producing electricity at times when the need for diverse resources is most important. Wind speeds can be at their lowest levels in the summer, when New England’s demand is peaking, and in the winter during extreme cold conditions when demand is high. Adding large amounts of this variable resource also would increase the complexity and decrease the flexibility of control room operations. If this wind potential is realized, system operators must be prepared to manage dispatch with resources that can have rapid and sizeable swings in output. To balance these potential swings by variable resources, the system must hold more capacity in reserve that can come on line quickly. While the short startup times of natural gas power plants provide a suitable complement, relying on natural gas generators for this purpose, without ensuring that they have a very strong incentive to contract or invest in reliable fuels supplies, will only exacerbate the operational issues that are being observed today.

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Comment by Dan McKay on April 13, 2013 at 7:02am

The volatile price of fossil fuel based on the volatile nature of wind.  

Comment by Willem Post on April 12, 2013 at 2:51pm
Comment by Harrison Roper on April 12, 2013 at 1:37pm

Well, maybe it will be necessary to guarantee fuel supply and minimum power sales to natural gas generators just to have their power available\when it is needed. Then, in order to accomodate the mandated purchase of all wind power, needed or not, we ratepayers will be subsidizing not only the wind facilities but the back-up generators.  What's wrong with this picture? 

 

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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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