The issues are whether it is feasible for CMP customers with concerns to opt out, and who would pay the extra cost.
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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Households take the hit from spike in oil prices
The impact is felt in Maine, where most homes burn oil for heat and many workers commute alone by car.
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Report: Maine’s metro areas are key to statewide growth
Policymakers should recognize that rural areas benefit from urban gains, a Brookings fellow says.
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Firm offers wood pellet supply deal
The Bethel company will lock in a price of $239 a ton or less into 2014 for buyers of its pellet boiler.
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Boiler company offers deal on pellet prices
Maine Energy Systems says it will lock in a pellet price equivalent to $1.99 a gallon of heating oil if a customer buys one of its pellet boilers.
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Portland landmark step closer to selling
The City Council approves new licenses so a hotel investment firm can buy the Eastland Park.
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License application foreshadows Eastland sale
The 202-room Eastland Park Hotel has been for sale since last fall. Next to Holiday Inn by the Bay, it has the largest conference space in the city.
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Dead River will help raise funds for heating
The energy company will match donations to the Share the Warmth campaign.
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Moonlit New Gloucester hike sheds light on land preservation
NEW GLOUCESTER – The setting sun was spreading a soft, pink hue above the western tree line, but the three dozen walkers gathered in the old farmyard here in mid-February weren’t taking off their snowshoes for the day. They were strapping them on for the night. The trekkers started arriving at dusk, with anticipation, headlamps […]
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Big mandate on campus:Bowdoin becoming carbon neutral
It was midafternoon, but the February sun was still glinting off the 48 solar panels on the roof of Thorne Hall here. Downstairs, the online display that monitors the system’s performance showed the panels were producing energy, helping to warm the 4,800 gallons of water that Bowdoin College uses each day at this dining hall.
Work remains to be done, but by summer the array is expected to supply more than half the hall’s hot water. Just as important, it will keep 91,520 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere each year, by not burning natural gas.