Comments - Jim Fossel: Maine’s Green New Deal as substance-free as the federal version - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-29T00:25:22Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A165662&xn_auth=noLenny,
FYI
Hydro-Quebec Ele…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-22:4401701:Comment:1656892019-04-22T12:42:17.959ZWillem Posthttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/WillemPost942
<p>Lenny,</p>
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<p>FYI</p>
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<p><strong>Hydro-Quebec Electricity Generation and Purchases: </strong>Google this URL for the 2017 facts. The H-Q electricity supply is an order of magnitude cleaner than the Vermont supply.…<br></br></p>
<p>Lenny,</p>
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<p>FYI</p>
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<p><strong>Hydro-Quebec Electricity Generation and Purchases: </strong>Google this URL for the 2017 facts. The H-Q electricity supply is an order of magnitude cleaner than the Vermont supply.<br/><a href="http://www.hydroquebec.com/sustainable-development/energy-environment/power-generation-purchases-exports.html">http://www.hydroquebec.com/sustainable-development/energy-environment/power-generation-purchases-exports.html</a></p>
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<tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Table 6/H-Q</strong></p>
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<td><p style="text-align: right;">2017</p>
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<td><p style="text-align: right;">GWh</p>
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<tr><td><p>Hydropower generated </p>
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<td><p style="text-align: right;">177091</p>
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<tr><td><p>Purchased</p>
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<td><p style="text-align: right;">44006</p>
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<tr><td><p>- Hydro</p>
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<td><p style="text-align: right;">31610</p>
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<tr><td><p>- Wind</p>
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<td><p style="text-align: right;">9634</p>
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<tr><td><p>- Biomass and waste reclamation </p>
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<td><p style="text-align: right;">2021</p>
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<tr><td><p>- Other</p>
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<td><p style="text-align: right;">741</p>
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<tr><td><p><strong>Total RE generated and purchased</strong></p>
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<td><p style="text-align: right;"><strong>221097</strong></p>
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<p><strong>NOTE:</strong>Gentilly-2 nuclear generating station, plus three thermal generating stations (Tracy, La Citière and Cadillac) were closed down.</p>
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<p><strong>Hydro-Quebec Export Electricity:</strong>H-Q net exports were 34.4 TWh/y in 2017; provided 27% of H-Q net income, or $780 million, i.e., very profitable.</p>
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<p><strong>H-Q export revenue was $1,651 million in 2017, or 1641/34.4 = 4.8 c/kWh</strong>.</p>
<p>See page 24 of Annual Report URL.</p>
<p>This is for a mix of old and new contracts.</p>
<p>Revenue = 1641</p>
<p>Net profit = 780</p>
<p>Cost = 1641 - 780 = 861</p>
<p><strong>Average cost of H-Q generation = 861/34.4 = 2.5 c/kWh</strong></p>
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<p>GMP buys H-Q electricity, at the Vermont border, for 5.549 c/kWh, under a recent contract. GMP buys at 5.549 c/kWh, per GMP spreadsheet titled “GMP Test Year Power Supply Costs filed as VPSB Docket No: Attachment D, Schedule 2, April 14, 2017”.</p>
<p>H-Q is eager to sell more of its surplus electricity to New England and New York.</p>
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<p><strong>That is about 50% less than ridgeline wind and large-scale field-mounted solar, which are heavily subsidized to make their electricity appear to be less costly than reality.</strong> </p>
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<p>GMP sells to households at 19 c/kWh, per rate schedule, including taxes, fees and surcharges. <strong>Pricing</strong> for electricity is highly political. That is implemented by rate setting, taxes, fees, surcharges, etc., mostly on household electric bills, as in Denmark and Germany, etc. The rate setting is influenced by protecting State government “RE policy objectives”, which include highly subsidized, expensive microgrids, islanding, batteries and net metered solar and heat pumps.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.hydroquebec.com/sustainable-development/energy-environment/export-markets.html">http://www.hydroquebec.com/sustainable-development/energy-environment/export-markets.html</a></p>
<p><a href="http://news.hydroquebec.com/en/press-releases/1338/annual-report-2917/">http://news.hydroquebec.com/en/press-releases/1338/annual-report-2917/</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/annual-report.pdf">http://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/annual-report.pdf</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/green-mountain-power-cost-of-electricity-c-kwh">http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/green-mountain-power-cost-of-electricity-c-kwh</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/increased-canadian-hydro-energy-to-grow-new-england-s-economy">http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/increased-canadian-hydro-energy-to-grow-new-england-s-economy</a></p> Small and large water power i…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2019-04-22:4401701:Comment:1654842019-04-22T03:29:11.713ZLenny Murphyhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/LennyMurphy
<p>Small and large water power is the best and cleanest source of truly clean power 24 hours every day! There is no way to better the best source of power we can make for free at no cost to the environment except for the cost of building the devices to generate! To compare to commercial wind power that causes more harm then it saves, just one ton of cement for the wind generator foundations puts one ton of Carbon Dioxide into your atmosphere as well as much heat and Carbon Dioxide etc.! Unless…</p>
<p>Small and large water power is the best and cleanest source of truly clean power 24 hours every day! There is no way to better the best source of power we can make for free at no cost to the environment except for the cost of building the devices to generate! To compare to commercial wind power that causes more harm then it saves, just one ton of cement for the wind generator foundations puts one ton of Carbon Dioxide into your atmosphere as well as much heat and Carbon Dioxide etc.! Unless you are getting free Federal dollars, which pushes up the National Debt etc., to bring forward commercial wind power then it may not bother you about all of the taxation without representation that is involved with big wind power and some of our politicians! Our schools needs to get involved in small water power and solar power to energized themselves and the world! It has been stated that Maine has almost enough water power potential to supply power for the country what are we waiting for there are few jobs in Maine and hydro and solar power can give students jobs by the thousands! Students need roots to help them stand on their own they can not get job skill from European and Canadian sports that have taken over our school systems and pushed our health care cost to the point that we can not afford insurance, true or false! Students should compete with a better solar panel to display and share and not end up with broken bones, if we could not get insurance on our kids when they play head butting sports would we let them pound on each other the way they do for a gold ball, not likely? We must ask for more realistic training in schools so students can be and feel more self-reliant independent and capable of making it today without all the drugs and others ways to prop them self up artificially! Truly yours, Lenny Murphy 746-9212</p>