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The Houston-based developer, EDP Renewables North America LLC, is owned by Spanish utility EDP Renováveis.
A monthly increase for residential customers of nearly $5 reflects the utility's need to cover costs incurred by extreme storm cleanup and legislative mandates.
Installation of 124 rooftop solar panels will be paid for, in part, with a state grant.
The co-founder of Dirigo Solar weighs in on the federal house bill, the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act.”
A workboat designed for electric propulsion performed successful sea trials. “This is about delivering zero-emission tools that meet the demands of working waterfronts.”
The 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.
Riverbank stabilization, battery backup power and heat pump installations are among the climate initiatives underway in the program’s largest grant round.
The 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.
Notice 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.
Clean-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.
Central Maine Power expects to complete the upgrade by the end of 2025.
Clean 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.
Versant Power is the state’s second-largest investor-owned electric transmission and distribution utility, and serves 165,000 customers in northern and central Maine.
The 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.
While Maine employers already have a lot to worry about these days, climate change should not be overlooked as an urgent priority.
Phil Bartlett has chaired the Maine Public Utilities Commission since 2019.
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For many, Thanksgiving means gathering with family and friends. It can also mean travel headaches.
AAA predicts a record 81.8 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home between Tuesday, Nov. 25, and Monday, Dec. 1.
Of those travelers, 73 million will go by car — up 1.3 million from a year ago.
With the federal shutdown resolved, air travel is expected to be back at normal levels — although, in this case, it will mean normal Thanksgiving levels. AAA predicts that 6 million people will travel by air, a 2% increase. (Last year, Portland International Jetport broke its Thanksgiving travel record, with 64,348 travelers, up from 54,636 in 2023.)
Another 2.5 million people will travel by bus, train or cruise ship.
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