Laidlaw Energy Group, Inc.(fka LLEG)

[nez]

Hi Penys, This seems to me anyway, to be MB's reasoning for his "take" on the LOOP.
I posted this before from;
www.citythattreesbuilt.com

I got it in the form of an "update" from the blog.
Nez
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Q) How will Laidlaw's position in the ISO-NE queue and the constraints on the Coos County transmission loop affect this project?
A) For the projects expected to come online in the near term, the capacity of the loop is adequate. Although the Laidlaw Project currently is in fifth position in the ISO-NE queue, it probably will be the first or second to come on line, behind the Noble project in Lost Nation. Due to the location of these two projects, the type of projects (wind blows intermittently) and the technical specifications of the Coos County transmission loop, the power from both projects can get down to Whitefield and on to the regional grid.

Over the longer term, the loop will have to be upgraded to accommodate the demand for renewable power created by the State's new Renewable Portfolio Standard mandate and the State's participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. In response, the State recently adopted legislation (SB 383) that finds that "it is in the public interest and to the benefit of New Hampshire to encourage the development of renewable energy" and that instrumental to such a goal the "existing transmission infrastructure, particularly in the northern part of the state (italics ours), will need to be upgraded or replaced or new transmission facilities will need to be built, " and establishing a commission that "shall develop a proposal for the upgrade of the transmission system in the north country no later than December 1, 2008, with the support of the public utilities commission and a consensus of the state's electric distribution providers, electric transmission companies, the consumer advocate, the commission staff and developers of proposed New Hampshire renewable generation projects which.have active applications in the ISO-NE Generator Interconnection Study Queue."
In other words, the State has adopted this problem as its own, and Laidlaw will continue to work with the Public Utilities Commission on a solution that accommodates all the realistic projects in the queue. In the context of a State proposal, Laidlaw's actual position in the queue is irrelevant.