ReVision Energy’s Barry Woods sees the future – and it’s battery-driven. But in a largely rural state with long distances between work and home, ‘range anxiety’ remains a high hurdle.
Tux Turkel
Tux Turkel writes primarily about energy issues affecting Maine. Over the years, he has gazed into the spent-fuel pool at the now-gone Maine Yankee nuclear plant, looked across Casco Bay from atop Wyman Station’s smokestack, and toured power plants and wind farms across the state, but remains confused about why electricity doesn’t leak from our wall sockets.
When he’s not trying to make sense of dense regulatory filings at the Public Utilities Commission, he’s likely to be hiking in the mountains or visiting Maine’s coastal islands in his small motorboat.
A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Tux lives in Yarmouth with his wife, youngest son, a cat and a guinea pig.
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California takes the lead in electric car sales; Maine isn’t in top 20
The federal Energy Information Administration predicts sales of electric vehicles will rise from less than 1 percent in 2015 to 9 percent of all vehicle sales by 2025.
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Rooftop solar bill advances, but Republican opposition foreshadows fight
The measure endorsed by the Legislature’s energy committee calls for a cost-benefit analysis of how utilities pay homeowners and small businesses for the electricity they generate.
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Maine lawmakers push question of biomass power incentives to next session
Legislators are looking for ways to help the struggling industry, but proposed solutions are complex and controversial and time is limited.
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Lawmakers vote against moving UMaine wind project farther from Monhegan
Energy committee members unanimously vote against a bill that would have moved the test site at least 7 miles farther out to sea.
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What is the public advocate?
The Office of Public Advocate represents Maine utility customers in matters under the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission, which oversees local telephone service, electric, gas and water utilities. The public advocate is appointed to a four-year term by the governor and confirmed by the Legislature. In the fiscal year ending last June 30, the […]
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Lawmakers endorse Barry Hobbins of Saco as Maine public advocate
The unanimous decision must now go to the Senate before the longtime legislator can assume his new role.
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Customers’ bills at center of fierce debate over incentives for Maine rooftop solar
Dozens of people crowd a hearing on new rules that the Legislature is considering to encourage homeowner use of solar power.
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Old Town mill eyed for full-scale plant to turn wood pulp into ingredient for diesel, jet fuel
‘The biggest obstacle now is financing,’ says Stephen Fitzpatrick, president of Biofine Technology LLC, which is partnering with UMaine on a pilot plant at the site.
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A short history of the Maine Aqua Ventus project
The 2009 law that designated the site off Monhegan includes a test period of up to 20 years, two turbines with a maximum capacity of 25 megawatts and a transmission cable to the mainland.