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Energy & Utilities
Legislature passes bill for 100% clean electricity by 2040
June 20, 2025The bill follows up on the state’s climate plan update to have 100% of electricity come from renewable sources by 2040.
June 20, 2025
Texas-based solar company adds site in Bar Harbor
Updated: June 18, 2025The Houston-based developer, EDP Renewables North America LLC, is owned by Spanish utility EDP Renováveis.
Updated: June 18, 2025
CMP customers will see higher monthly bills starting July 1
June 17, 2025A monthly increase for residential customers of nearly $5 reflects the utility's need to cover costs incurred by extreme storm cleanup and legislative mandates.
June 17, 2025
Kennebunk's downtown Waterhouse Center to get a solar installation
June 3, 2025Installation of 124 rooftop solar panels will be paid for, in part, with a state grant.
June 3, 2025
Op-Ed: A budget proposal passed in the House threatens to undermine low-cost power for Mainers
Updated: June 2, 2025The co-founder of Dirigo Solar weighs in on the federal house bill, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
Updated: June 2, 2025-
Southern Maine firms team up on workboat designed with electric propulsion
Updated: May 29, 2025A workboat designed for electric propulsion performed successful sea trials. “This is about delivering zero-emission tools that meet the demands of working waterfronts.”
Updated: May 29, 2025
Op-Ed: 'Big, beautiful bill’ endangers planned factory in Lewiston — and very future it claims to champion
Updated: May 26, 2025The sweeping domestic policy bill passed by the U.S. House last week endangers plans for a $6 million advanced battery plant in Lewiston that had been set to employ 70 people in three years.
Updated: May 26, 2025
166 Maine communities awarded $8M to strengthen climate resilience
May 6, 2025Riverbank stabilization, battery backup power and heat pump installations are among the climate initiatives underway in the program’s largest grant round.
May 6, 2025
Regulators approve Efficiency Maine’s growth plan, but federal policies cloud future
May 1, 2025The chief impact of federal action that is already happening is the delay in the trust’s expansion of its loan program for energy upgrades to homes and businesses.
May 1, 2025
Funding for UMaine’s wind energy research program suspended
Updated: April 29, 2025Notice of a funding freeze by the Trump administration for alternative energy research at the university has brought an abrupt halt to an offshore wind turbine installation project that has been years in the making.
Updated: April 29, 2025
Maine building trade unions urge Congress to protect federal energy tax credits
Updated: April 25, 2025Clean-energy projects over the past two years have created good-paying jobs, said union reps. Developers are pausing project starts as Congress debates federal investment.
Updated: April 25, 2025
CMP crews upgrading Sanford-area transmission line
Updated: April 21, 2025Central Maine Power expects to complete the upgrade by the end of 2025.
Updated: April 21, 2025Future of Maine’s renewable energy projects uncertain, says E2Tech panel
Updated: April 14, 2025Clean energy investors expect to face higher costs than they did a year or two ago, partially as a side effect of the threat of tariffs.
Updated: April 14, 2025
Maine Public Utilities Commission to investigate Versant Power
April 9, 2025Versant Power is the state’s second-largest investor-owned electric transmission and distribution utility, and serves 165,000 customers in northern and central Maine.
April 9, 2025Unitil to purchase Maine Natural Gas for $86 million
April 1, 2025The transaction, which is subject to approval by the Maine Public Utilities Commission, is expected to close by the end of the year, at which point Brunswick-based Maine Natural Gas would become a wholly owned subsidiary of Unitil.
April 1, 2025
How to cut costs while going green
Updated: March 18, 2025While Maine employers already have a lot to worry about these days, climate change should not be overlooked as an urgent priority.
Updated: March 18, 2025
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