Maine utility regulators to award contract to solar power company
The Maine Public Utilities Commission will award a contract to provide wholesale electricity to Maine power companies to a Portland company planning to build large-scale solar projects across the state.
The Morning Sentinel reported that PUC commissioners approved terms of a contract for Dirigo Solar in November to develop solar farms that that can generate enough electricity to power at least 10,000 Maine homes.
Dirigo Solar has not said where it intends to build the solar arrays, but the terms of the contract call for the company to develop projects that can generate up to 75 megawatts. The company’s intended delivery point is at a former biomass plant in Deblois in Washington County.
The spokesman for Dirigo Solar told the Morning Sentinel that the contract shows that utility-scale solar can work in Maine. The company was formed earlier this year by Brian Murphy and Nicholas Mazuroski and has offices in Westbrook, according to the paper.
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