The LePage administration receives federal approval to spend $3.8 million from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to seal drafty houses and repair furnaces rather than purchase heating fuel.
Tux Turkel
Tux Turkel writes primarily about energy issues affecting Maine. Over the years, he has gazed into the spent-fuel pool at the now-gone Maine Yankee nuclear plant, looked across Casco Bay from atop Wyman Station’s smokestack, and toured power plants and wind farms across the state, but remains confused about why electricity doesn’t leak from our wall sockets.
When he’s not trying to make sense of dense regulatory filings at the Public Utilities Commission, he’s likely to be hiking in the mountains or visiting Maine’s coastal islands in his small motorboat.
A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Tux lives in Yarmouth with his wife, youngest son, a cat and a guinea pig.
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Wind foes come to blows
An opposition group’s settlements with developers divide the resistance to wind-power projects in Maine.
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Servicers for once popular Monitor heaters dwindle
Companies know there’s a need, but for now the job of repairing the kerosene-fueled units falls to a dedicated few.
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As fuel prices fall, Mainers can expect heat on the cheap this winter
Compared with recent seasons, they’re likely to spend hundreds of millions less because oil and other fuels are at their lowest prices in years.
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Oil, gas companies in heated battle for customers north of Portland
Ad campaigns and sales people on Segways woo homeowners and small businesses in three suburban towns with new natural gas lines.
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Meters open another window on our private worlds
The capabilities of the technology raise questions about privacy and security.
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Consumers still waiting for smart meters to pay off
The new technology has delivered modest savings and greater reliability, but CMP admits its data management needs ‘to catch up.’
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Texas-based power seller draws complaints for Maine door-to-door tactics
Central Maine Power says it has no affliation with Clearview Energy, and the Public Utilities Commission is scrutinizing the company’s practices.
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Solar boom in Maine masks lack of support
The looming loss or reduction of subsidies and the ‘worst’ state incentives in New England cast shadows on the energy option.
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Grid-feeding battery system of the future humming in Boothbay
It’s a cheaper way to supply power on high-demand days than adding transmission lines, and could grow the value of solar and wind energy in Maine.