renewable energy

Federal agencies are withholding awards from former President Joe Biden's signature legislation.

Federal incentives sparked private investment according to Natural Resources Council of Maine.

Electricity generation from large-scale solar arrays was up 18 percent over the year before, while electric output from wind farms grew by 7 percent.

The site will be located in place of the former Great Northern Paper mill, with plans to turn logging byproducts into heating fuel.

A White House order has stopped federal leases for ocean wind and paused permitting for all wind projects.

The company that owns a gas-fired power plant at the mill site said an existing grid interconnection makes it an attractive site for clean energy.

Critics cast doubt on gas industry's claim that producing gas from manure and decomposing trash is a climate benefit.

The delegation is traveling to two countries with established offshore wind energy industries at a time when the Mills administration is facing political headwinds while trying to jump-start the sector in Maine.

At an American floating offshore wind conference in Portland this week, developers and investors' confidence in the future of wind is unshakeable.

Brooklin, Chebeague Island, Cranberry Isles, Passamaquoddy Tribe at the Pleasant Point Reservation and Washington County will get technical and planning assistance to pursue changing energy needs.