Surveying the Current Energy Landscape with Matt Gamache
Tune into Surveying the Current Energy Landscape, a wide‑ranging conversation featuring Competitive Energy Services’ Chief Operating Officer Matt Gamache and Orion Breen, Executive Director of the Environmental & Energy Technology Council (E2Tech). The podcast explores the U.S. energy landscape one year into the second Trump Administration, examining growing market complexity, rising affordability concerns, emerging reliability risks, and the rapid pace of change […]
Surveying the Current Energy Landscape
By Matt Gamache, COO About a year ago, I wrote a CES Insights blog post about what we might expect from the incoming Trump administration from an energy industry perspective. The primary theme was one of uncertainty as we waded through a deluge of Executive Orders and tried to make sense of the onslaught of […]
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 […]
Competitive Energy Services: Celebrating 25 Years…and Beyond
By Andrew Price, President & CEO At the start of each year, it is important to take a moment to reflect on the past, celebrate accomplishments, evaluate setbacks and set goals for the new year. Senior leadership at Competitive Energy Services has a tradition of sharing year end reflections through a year-end letter. The following […]
Three Energy Trends We’re Watching in 2024
By Matt Gamache, Chief Operating Officer As we enter 2024, the global and domestic energy landscape appears increasingly uncertain. International relations and the global flow of goods has been marked by conflicts in Israel and Gaza and ongoing war in Ukraine. While 2023 began with the Federal Reserve raising interest rates and many economists expecting […]
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 […]
Beneficial Electrification and Rate Design: Expanding the Electricity Grid
By Matt Gamache, Vice President, Analytics & Operations To reduce greenhouse gas emissions and take advantage of an increasingly renewable electricity grid, our energy systems must begin electrifying fossil fuel-based sources of emissions, such as replacing fossil fuel heating with heat pumps and shifting the transportation sector towards electric vehicles. This transition is referred to […]
CES Spotlight: An Interview with Matt Gamache
This month’s CES Spotlight shines brightly on Matt Gamache, Vice President, Analytics & Operations, known within the company, across our client base, and within the energy industry for his optimism, intelligence, energy expertise, and natural leadership ability. Matt oversees CES’ A-Team, our largest department, who individually and as a team make it a priority each […]