REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF A RATE CHANGE - 307 (7/30/23) PERTAINING TO CENTRAL MAINE POWER COMPANY
The Maine PUC Asks Why CMP Wants A Rate Increase.
Q. Before you lay out the specifics of CMP’s Rate Plan, please describe any circumstances that you believe provide important context.
- (1) Grid Needs (much of the CMP distribution grid is more than sixty years old, not automated, and not ready for integration of tens of thousands of distributed energy resources (“DERs”));
- (2) Climate Change Needs (we are experiencing more frequent storms and intense weather; at the same time, Maine has the highest tree density of any state in the United States);
- (3) Customer Service Needs (our customers want to interact with us in a number of different ways—often increasingly electronic and “seamless” as to experience);
- (4) Maine State Energy Policy Goals (decreasing greenhouse gas emissions by 45% by 2030 and 80% by 2050 and achieving carbon neutrality by 2045); and PP-4 1
- (5) Historic Inflation and Post-COVID Conditions (we are experiencing record rates of inflation that are expected to persist in the near term and impact core business costs like labor, benefits, materials, and contractor expenses)
STATE OF MAINE
PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
Request for Approval of a Our Power
Rate Change – 307 Pertaining
to Central Maine Power Company Petition to Intervene
Docket No. 2022-00152 September 2, 2022
Pursuant to Chapter 110, Section 8(B) of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure, Our Power respectfully requests that it be allowed to intervene in this case.
In support of its petition, Our Power Maine states as follows:
- On August 22, 2022, the Commission issued a Procedural Order in this proceeding, in which it extended the deadline for interested persons wishing to participate as parties in this matter to file a petition to intervene no later than September 2, 2022.
- On August 11, 2022, Central Maine Power Company (CMP) submitted its rate case filing, in the cover letter of which CMP lists key initiatives covered by the rate plan. These include: a substantial change in rates over three years, electric vehicle and energy storage programs to modernize Maine’s grid and support the State’s clean energy transformation; and updated rate design proposals that improve time of use schedules and rates and enable deployment of battery storage, heat pumps and other new technologies.
- Our Power is a non-profit organization pursuing a statewide referendum seeking the conversion of Maine’s investor-owned electric utilities to a consumer-owned utility structure.
- Our Power has members and supporters throughout Maine who have a strong interest in the rates, reliability, environmental and renewable energy development and interconnection policies of Central Maine Power Company, and any proposed changes to rates, rate design, or other utility initiatives in connection with these interests.
- No other party adequately represents Our Power’s interest in this matter because of Our Power’s unique advocacy for a more efficient and socially responsible public utility structure for the State of Maine. If granted leave to intervene, Our Power reserves the right to file relevant testimony, participate in discovery, hearings and negotiations, file briefs and comments, and otherwise participate fully as a party.
- Our Power requests to receive all filings made in this proceeding, subject to the limitations of any protective orders issued. The following people should be included on the official service list in this proceeding and all communications concerning this Petition to Intervene should be addressed to: Andrew Blunt, andrew@ourpowermaine.org, 207-752-1320
- WHEREFORE, Our Power petitions the Commission to grant this petition to intervene in this proceeding.
Dated September 2, 2022.
Respectfully submitted,
Andrew Blunt
Executive Director, Our Power
139 Sherman St.
Portland, ME 04101
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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."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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