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The free lab, offered by Coastal Enterprises Inc., will provide basic business management tools and industry insights to help weatherization contractors stay open or expand.
A solar array featuring more than 14,000 panels is generating power used by College of the Atlantic, the Deer Isle School District, the Bangor Water District and the town of Blue Hill.
The Searsport site is already owned by the state and is designated for port development, saving money and having less environmental impact.
Air-source heat pumps are gaining traction in Maine. After meeting its goal to install 100,000 units two years early, the state has a target of 175,000 more heat pumps by 2027.
Maine's fast-growing clean energy economy demands a trained workforce, and programs statewide are responding.
Association of Consulting Expertise member Sam Milton offers four tips to help businesses save on their energy bills.
For the energy/environment focus, Mainebiz looks at the increased use of heat pumps for commercial buildings, as well as how the energy industry is tackling the labor shortage.
Kingfish Maine, Tanbark Molded Fiber Products, Maine Plywood USA, Five Pillars Butchery, Heiwa Tofu and the Holy Donut will receive public funding to pay for upgrades to electrical infrastructure.
Researchers will explore how fisheries might coexist with floating offshore wind turbines, and will create a baseline inventory of data about Maine's fishing community.
A $50 million proposal would help communities rebuild infrastructure and enhance climate resiliency; $4.4 million is available to increase electrical grid resilience to extreme storms.
The project will remove an inefficient 20,000-square-foot maintenance complex, four temporary trailers and 11 outbuildings, and construct a new LEED Silver facility.
Competitive Energy Services, an energy management services firm with offices in Portland and Topsfield, Mass., has promoted Eben Perkins to chief strategy officer.
The money, from the U.S. Department of Transportation, will be used to install charging ports in 63 cities and towns.
The New York contractor chosen to build a 160-mile transmission line for the project wanted to change its pricing, prompting the Public Utilities Commission to instead terminate the deal.
After the Dec. 18 storm knocked out power to some half a million Maine customers, by Friday the power companies were addressing the last outages. Restaurants pitched in to provide 5,600 lunches for utility crews.
In addition to a cut in the utility's standard-offer supply rate, announced two weeks ago, residential customers will see the delivery portion of their electricity bill go down by 4% in the new year, the company said.