The Government Schemes are Criminal, Carbon Dioxide Has Been Declared a Beneficial Component of the Atmosphere by the EPA

How does solar help itself to your money while natural gas plants set the price of wholesale electricity? The dastardly secret is RGGI. Natural gas plants prices fall during the times of day that solar enters it's output to the grid. This is great for those who say solar causes a drop in wholesale electric prices, but there is more happening behind the scenes. RGGI is a tax on fossil fuel plants. This tax is attached to production costs of fossil fuel plants causing a rise in the wholesale price set by natural gas. This can add 30% to the wholesale price at an extra $9- $10 per megawatt hour. 
Whereas natural gas plants commonly set the wholesale price, other generation, such as solar, gains a windfall payment of $9 - $10 per megawatt hour. Without RGGI, wholesale prices would fall significantly, solar would not gain by attaching to the coattails of natural gas with the RGGI penalty.
Solar also receives Renewable Energy Credit payments at $40 plus per megawatt hour paid through the supply portion of retail electric bills. Natural gas does not receive any credit payments. 
Solar energy is very expensive due to elaborate schemes developed in the halls of government, while they blame the volatility of electricity prices on natural gas. The constant price hike caused by government schemes overwhelms any gas price deviations, which by definition of volatility goes down as well as up. These schemes make sure that gas plant prices stay up and add to the profit margin of solar. If these schemes stay in place, electric prices will continue to rise as RGGI taxes and Renewable Energy Credit prices rise, which is inevitable because the natural gas plants are being squeezed by rapidly declining caps on allowable carbon dioxide emissions and renewable energy credits are experiencing rapidly declining availability.

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Comment by Willem Post 5 hours ago

Politicians and bureaucrats are eager to prove they are right about solar and wind. They just load electricity of traditional plants with onerous burdens to make them look more expensive.

It is an evil game that impoverishes New Englanders

 

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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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