Illegal Rates Charged to Maine Electric Customers

The Maine State Government rewards solar projects handsomely. Tariff Rate projects (Available to non-residential customers) total 501 projects in Maine.
 
Central Maine Power and Versant Power estimates these 501 tariff rate projects will receive a total of over $110,000,000in rewards using the last 12 month's production numbers. These rewards develop from rates set by the PUC, using the standard offer and T&D rates, minus the wholesale payments made to generators in the ISO-NE market. The $110,000,000 rewards are in Maine monthly bills. 
 
Rates set by PUC for Earlier Tariff Rate Projects = $.202185(CMP) and $.22637(Versant) per kilowatt hour
Rates set by the PUC for Later Tariff Rate Projects = $.136 406(CMP) and $.15435(Versant) per kilowatt hour
Wholesale rates set in the competitive market = $0.066180 per kilowatt hour
 
Now, comes along a Petition to Intervene in the determination of rates conducted by the PUC for July 1, 2025.
 
The Industrial Energy Consumer Group has the following to say to the PUC:
"A. Recovery of Above-Market NEB Tariff Rate Program Costs is Preempted and Prohibited."
" It is the position of IECG, and IECG argues in this proceeding, that the imposition on CMP and its ratepayers of NEB above-market costs associated with the Tariff Rate Program is in violation of federal preemption of state rate setting regarding wholesale transactions and therefore the above-market costs are not legitimate costs to be imposed on CMP, nor to be recovered and reconciled in stranded costs rates run through any rate setting mechanism administered by the Commission. Arguments regarding preemption have been presented to the Commission previously and also in IECG’s appeal in Industrial Energy Consumer Group v. Public Utilities Commission, Law Court Docket No. PUC-24-382, dated December 2, 2024 (“Preemption Appeal”). Any rates containing any such costs are, as a legal matter, not just and reasonable and may not be imposed on Maine ratepayers by the Commission." 

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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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