But a state energy official says many of the bid proposals to build transmission lines and feed power to southern New England won’t become reality.
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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Food that has lost its looks doesn’t have to go to waste
Millions of pounds of pitted produce and outdated cakes still fill the plates of hungry Mainers, feed livestock or become compost. If anyone tells you different, that’s garbage.
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Hunger drives more Mainers to soup kitchens
As is the case at Maine’s 252 food pantries, demand is up at roughly 60 free-meal programs across the state.
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Food pantries filling critical need
Single parents and elderly residents, many of whom lack the income to cover their housing, transportation, food, utilities and medical costs, are especially dependent on pantries
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Persistent hunger fuels sprawling food supply system for needy Mainers
More than 200,000 residents regularly depend on food that moves through an enormous distribution system into a statewide network of pantries and meal programs.
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Power rates on the line as CMP, Emera Maine ask to generate power again
The distribution companies say prices could fall if they can return to producing some of their own electricity, but skeptics say that’s just as likely to raise rates as lower them.
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Wood stove change-out subsidy helps extinguish old polluters
Program offers Rumford-area homeowners $1,000 to replace their dirty heat stoves.
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Exempt wood stoves, popular with Mainers, fade from stores as new rules kick in
Starting next month, retailers are limited to selling only wood burners that meet emission rules set by federal regulators.
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Solar power advocates rally while task force ponders Maine policy
At stake is the pace of solar development and how electric customers will be treated.
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Electric car sales sputter as Mainers go for SUVs
Climate talks in Paris are heightening awareness of the need for green cars, but the go-to vehicle in largely rural Maine is an SUV that can haul kids and gear in all kinds of weather.