Keep it Quiet. Nobody Needs to Know Until it is Too Late
Here it is. The Aroostook County Renewable Energy Development Program presented and packaged as an innocuous, unimportant, and another boring PUC solicitation
" Request for Proposals
for
Energy Generation
and
Transmission Projects"
" Issued by the
Maine Public Utilities Commission
35-A M.R.S. § 3210-I"
" December 19, 2025"
And here is the PUC's coordinating effort with other states, but someone is missing and possibly, because it has no use for these projects
"1.3 Coordination with Other New England States the Commission is coordinating with other New England states in the evaluation of proposals and consideration of a joint selection in which all or some other combination of the Coordinating States would participate. Appendices O and P contain the additional evaluation requirements and parameters of the potential involvement by Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont, respectively."
What won't you find in this document? There is no mention of bringing this plan forward to the public for their input. In fact, the public is shut out of knowing anything until the PUC selects the contractors, locations and routes for these projects, tentatively scheduled for May 2026.You have to go to the Maine Statute that addresses these projects to see what appears as the last item in the document and vaguely presented, no times included!
"5. Public involvement and coordination. The commission and the Department of Environmental Protection shall ensure coordinated public notification and opportunities for public participation, including explanation of all public participation procedures, in connection with regulatory approvals and permitting under this Title and Title 38 for a transmission line or lines and renewable energy generation projects under the program. "
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Comment by Dan McKay 2 hours ago
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The PUC case number for this RFP is 2025-00361 and is open to public comments
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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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