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Gov. Mills presents plan to achieve universal availability of affordable broadband

Gov. Mills presents plan to achieve universal availability of affordable broadband
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Maine lawmakers taking closer look at solar power payback

Maine lawmakers taking closer look at solar power payback
Critics worry the state is forcing utilities to pay solar power providers especially large commercial producers too much, and that the burden will end up on the backs of ratepayers.
By Bonnie WashukSpecial to the Sun Journal
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AUGUSTA Consumers interested in rooftop or community solar should stay tuned to what comes out of the Maine Legislature by the time members adjourn in June.
At issue is something called net energy billing, which in simple terms means when a home’s or business’s rooftop solar panels generate more electricity than needed onsite and the home or business owner gets credit for that electricity, which gets fed into the New England power grid. ....

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Mills has a chance to fill key energy post as LePage appointee's PUC term ends

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Mills has a chance to fill key energy post as LePage appointee’s PUC term ends
The 6-year term of Bruce Williamson, an economist who was nominated to the Maine Public Utilities Commission by then-Gov. Paul LePage in 2015, ended in March.
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An expired term on the three-member Maine Public Utilities Commission is giving Gov. Janet Mills an opportunity to advance her climate change mitigation agenda with a key nomination to a panel with an outsize influence on state energy policy.
The six-year term of Bruce Williamson, an economist who was nominated by former Gov. Paul LePage in 2015, ended in March. Mills already has begun interviewing candidates for the position, although their names have not been disclosed. ....

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Mills has a chance to fill key energy post as LePage appointee's PUC term ends

Mills has a chance to fill key energy post as LePage appointee's PUC term ends
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State Workers' Switch To Telework During Pandemic Brings 'Seismic' Drop in CO2 Emissions

Commercial Street is nearly devoid of pedestrians and traffic on March 25, 2020 in Portland, Maine, just before a stay-at-home order went into place because of the pandemic. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)
Maine government workers have reduced their car travel by 1 million vehicle miles a week since the start of the pandemic, thanks to the rapid, wholesale adoption of telework policies.
The preliminary data are opening an unexpected window on the future of telecommuting and its potential to deliver substantial reductions in global warming pollution.
Last year, before anyone heard of COVID-19, Maine’s Legislature authorized a comprehensive analysis of telework’s potential costs and benefits for state government and its employees. But as the research project got underway, the pandemic hit, and by April of this year some 85 percent of the state government’s workforce excepting public safety positions was suddenly working from home. ....

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