COMMISSION ISSUES REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR NORTHERN MAINE RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION PROJECTS
Commission Decision Regarding Procurement Results, No Later than November 1, 2022
- The wholesale electric pricing market, the key guide in comparing pricing offers from wind, solar, battery and transmission developments, is in chaos, completely out of proportion with prices of just two years ago.
- There is no way to determine a target price to gauge any offer as competitive. Is it $26 per megawatt hour as it was in 2020 or is it $94 per megawatt hour as it is today?
- Or is it any more than $94 per megawatt hour as it will be by January 2023?
- Would anyone want to buy a product when prices are high or would they consider a delay of purchases for a later lower price.
- No doubt, the project developers are licking their chops over the current sky-high wholesale prices and are grinning ear to ear about the prospect of ratepayers paying for the transmission infrastructure to bring all these "renewable" generation projects to the grid; the same grid that operates the wholesale market.
- The Maine PUC must refrain from accepting any offer until the market stabilizes. The PUC must be given time to evaluate the offers and the harm that wind, solar, battery and transmission developments will do to the grid.
- These generation projects are of low value to a grid swamped already by intermittent and overpriced "renewables".
- It has been said before, but it is worth repeating. ": Wind and Solar" are like the hired drunk, never knowing when they will show up to work.
- Whether or not the political winds change on November 8, it is imperative that the PUC protects the ratepayers from further financial damage. There is too much at stake for a livable Maine.
- If ever there was a proposal that should not be accepted, this one is it. It invites lawsuits by ratepayer advocacy entities, if allowed to move forward.
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Comment by Dan McKay on October 17, 2022 at 6:12am
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Absolutely, Willem. Wind and Solar should only receive capacity pay from the wholesale market, which is calculated from real capacity factors.Product_Report_10_9_2022.pdf
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Comment by Willem Post on October 16, 2022 at 6:12pm
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There is no cost of fuel for wind and solar.
Therefore, the price paid to Owners of wind and solar should only increase, if costs, other than fuel, increase
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Lots of huge solar installations going in up here, one in Fort Kent, one in Frenchvilled, a HUGE one at the former Loring AFB. If you like seeing hundreds of acres of silicone panels on cement anchored poles surrounded by tall chainlink fencing, it's really scenic, and as we know, very inefficient at energy production. Not that it matters.
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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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