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Encore Renewable Energy Completes 2 Community Solar Projects in Maine

By Billy Ludt, Solar Power World | January 22, 2025 Encore Renewable Energy, a renewable energy developer and operator, completed the first two solar projects it will both own and operate in Maine. Brooks Solar, a 4-MW solar array located in Brooks, and Alpine Street Solar, a 2.3-MW array located in Oakland, were both energized […]

Matt Gamache, COO of CES Elected to E2Tech Board

On Thursday, January 16, 2025 Matthew Gamache, Competitive Energy Services’ Chief Operating Officer, was elected for a three-year term to the Board of Directors of the Environmental & Energy Technology Council of Maine (E2Tech), along with four other Portland area professionals. A graduate of Bowdoin College’s Government and Environmental Studies program and Vermont Law School’s […]

Our View: Maine Legislature Must Lock in Climate Efforts

When the time comes, our legislators in Augusta owe it to the Maine Climate Council to promptly and effectively act on the good and valuable work carried out by that new body this year. Shifting political sands have injected urgency into some decision-making in recent days and weeks. If the reshuffle in D.C. will lead […]

New Subsidies in 2024 Could Boost Already-Prevalent Heat Pumps in Maine

The infusion of federal dollars could expand implementation further in the state, where the market has been thriving. Stephen Singer, Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald Eben Perkins says his South Portland house used to feel like a “sub-zero tundra” in winter. After shoring up the insulation a few years back, he and his wife installed […]

Green Money: Bowdoin Trades RECs

By Rebecca Goldfine Bowdoin recently sold its high-value, Maine-based renewable energy credits (RECs) to free up funds to buy RECs in so-called “dirtier” electrical grids and to invest in green projects and technologies that will help reduce Bowdoin’s greenhouse gasses. With some of its new funding, Bowdoin’s Office of Sustainability added twelve new chargers to the Coffin […]

Power for the People 11/22/23: Maine Electric Grid

Last month, Competitive Energy Services’ Eben Perkins, Vice President, Consulting, spent time talking energy on Bangor’s solar-powered WERU 89.9 FM’s podcast with Producer/Host, Steve Kahl, who also serves as Professor of Science at Thomas College, where he teaches environmental and energy courses. Eben manages CES’ consulting practice, helping customers complete targeted energy market assessment, understand […]

Home Heating Prices in Maine Stable as Winter Approaches

By Stephen Singer, Staff Writer, Portland Press Herald Oil prices are down from previous highs and propane inventories are strong, boding well for Mainers as winter approaches, energy experts said at a recent gathering in Portland. “We’re in a good position as we’re heading into this coming winter,” Charlie Agnew, director of energy services at […]

Relief Expected for Maine Utility Customers

By Tux Turkel Though rates may drop, there’s plenty of uncertainty surrounding the PUC procurement process that starts in mid-November. After enduring record-high electricity supply rates this year, most Maine households will start seeing some welcome relief in January, based on recent declines in other New England states and projections by Maine energy experts.  Some New […]