An investor rescinds its request for the state to guarantee a loan so the facility’s owner could try to turn wasted heat into profits, as Gov. LePage prepares to promote Maine’s biomass potential at a conference.

The Governor’s Energy Office has set three meetings to help develop energy, economic and environmental goals.

Stored Solar wants to build the nation’s first shrimp farm at a biomass plant, but owes money and has had trouble launching other initiatives.

The governor says a new gas line could lower prices in Maine, but it would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and some people at a conference in Falmouth say the idea is unrealistic.