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A big Farmington solar array shows the potential for renewable energy on Maine farms

The Farmington project is emblematic of a growing tension between Maine's booming solar industry and efforts to preserve an already limited supply of productive farmland.

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NJ ratepayers to fund out-of-state solar developers?

Credit: (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) Jan. 14, 2021: In Oxford, Maine, electrician Zach Newton works on wiring solar panels at the 38-acre BNRG/Dirigo solar farm. The state is considering allowing out-of-state developers to obtain subsidies from utility customers to build grid-scale solar projects, a strategy that could lower costs to ratepayers, but might undermine the viability of the solar sector in New Jersey. The proposal is key to the latest debate over how New Jersey is going to build enough solar projects to achieve ambitious targets in its Energy Master Plan, which projects the state is going to supply more than one-third of its electricity from solar energy by mid-century. Today, solar energy accounts for just roughly 5% of the state’s electricity.