Shaded solar panels, disconnected wind turbines: tales of a $1.1 million...
Solar panels were installed behind trees, covered with snow, shaded by a barn or not tilted toward the sun. Wind turbines were blocked by trees or shut down for safety reasons and then not turned back...
View ArticleSchalit gets windy on Vermont Public Radio
Maine’s not the only state experiencing friction between advocates for and against wind power. So is Vermont. Vermont Public Radio wanted to help its listeners understand the broader context of those...
View ArticleWind not seen as the wave of our energy future; traditional fuels and...
To listen to talk about the world’s energy future, you might think that wind, solar and other renewable resources are the wave of the future. A quarter century from now, green power would have...
View ArticleEnergy independence for U.S., Maine comes at a price
Just a few months ago, almost nobody talked about the Strait of Hormuz, much less worried about its effect on our lives. Now, Iran threatens to close that narrow stretch of water in the Middle East....
View ArticleMeeting land-based wind goals not likely, say two state studies
Maine will not be able to accomplish the state-mandated goals of building 2000 megawatts of wind power on land by 2015. That’s one conclusion of two studies issued this week by the governor’s energy...
View ArticleMulti-million-dollar wind deal approved by state regulators
State regulators on Tuesday approved a multi-million-dollar deal that could fund construction of hundreds of wind turbines in Maine and the Northeast, despite a staff recommendation to reject the...
View ArticleUtility regulators used broad authority in approving wind deal
The Maine Public Utilities Commission recently issued a decision in a hotly contested case allowing Emera, the Nova Scotia company that owns Bangor Hydro and Maine Public Service, to create a new...
View ArticleWind power’s grip on Augusta weakening as ‘God’s Country’ presses its case
They came from the townships and plantations of Concord, Lexington, Highland, Carrying Place and Pleasant Ridge. They set out for the statehouse in Augusta from the five sparsely populated backcountry...
View ArticleLawmakers want to restore rights to residents in wind tower zones
A legislative committee today sided with residents in some of the state's western mountains in their fight to have more say over the construction of industrial wind towers in their backyards. If the...
View ArticleRural citizens lose battle to have say in wind tower rezoning
“I feel like a citizen who is seen to be of less value than my neighbors,” said Karen Bessey Pease, after Maine Senate Democrats Wednesday sidelined an effort to give her and other residents of the...
View ArticleHigh court overrules agency OK of multi-million-dollar wind energy deal
A 2012 deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars to expand wind energy projects across the Northeast was dealt a blow Tuesday by the Maine supreme court, which ruled that a state agency's approval of...
View ArticleState utility regulators approve giant wind deal — again
A deal to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into construction of wind energy projects in Maine and across the Northeast has been approved by Maine’s utility regulators.
View ArticleLegislature and LePage agree: rural residents given right to question wind...
Gov. LePage and the legislature have found something to agree on: restoring the right of residents in rural Maine to have a say in the siting of wind turbines in their portion of the Unorganized...
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