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CMP seeks rate hike to fund investments, sparking pushback from Mills
Updated: September 17, 2025Ahead of public hearings before the Maine Public Utilities Commission, Gov. Janet Mills said the proposed rate increase “blatantly ignores” the economic reality that Maine residents face every day.
Updated: September 17, 2025
CMP promotes VP to president as Purington takes regional role
September 8, 2025Linda Ball, who has served as CMP’s vice president of customer service since 2019, has taken the reins as president of Maine's largest utility, succeeding Joe Purington, who has been named CEO of Avangrid Networks.
September 8, 2025
After EPA cancels $62M Maine solar grant, Governor's Energy Office pushes back
August 11, 2025Maine’s Solar for All program was expected to help some 20,000 low-income Maine households save between $380 and $1,400 annually on energy bills.
August 11, 2025
CMP rolls out 5-year plan to invest up to $450 million, add hundreds of employees in Maine
Updated: July 17, 2025The plan, which includes hiring 200 new lineworkers to install, maintain and repair power lines damaged by extreme weather, requires approval from the Maine Public Utilities Commission.
Updated: July 17, 2025
Op-Ed: US solar industry is under attack, raising Maine’s already high energy costs
Updated: July 15, 2025At ReVision Energy, we have been wrestling with political attacks on our industry since the company was launched in 2003, Phil Coupe writes in this guest commentary piece.
Updated: July 15, 2025
Maine developer of affordable, energy-efficient homes will ramp up
June 30, 2025Mount Desert-based Zero Energy Homes hired an aerospace manufacturing specialist to lead development of affordable, energy-efficient homes and a modular-home manufacturing facility.
June 30, 2025
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
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