Your Maine Guide to our evolving energy economy, and the funding that will fuel it.
We Mainahs are famous for being do-it-your-self-ers, but when it comes to some things like surveying and lawyering and such, we know when to call on the experts.
Engineers, site surveyors, architects, builders, attorneys and many other professionals play an essential role in making any sustainable energy system come together. Let's talk about what is needed and who can provide it.
An energy auditor performs a blower door test.
The Bosarge Family Education Center at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine has been awarded the 2013 Zero Net Energy Building Award by the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA).
Thornton Tomasetti, an international engineering firm with offices in Portland, served as the project’s green building consultant.
Read the full story from Thornton Tomasetti. Read a complete description of the building here.
Photo courtesy of Thornton Tomasetti.
On May 21, 2013, the Pine Tree Watchdog published an in-depth report on a March 28 hearing before the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee on LD 616, which proposes to weaken some provisions of the Wind Energy Act of 2008 and restore more local controls over consideration of wind power facility applications in certain townships, plantations and Unorganized Territories. The committee has agreed to review the policy, which has streamlined the permitting of wind projects since 2008.
Read the full article on the Pine Tree Watchdog site.
Later this spring, UMaine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center will test a buoy-based light detection and ranging system, or LiDAR, which can gauge wind speeds at up to 600' above the surface of the ocean. Data from the device can help to determine the best location for offshore wind turbines.
Read the full story in the Bangor Daily News or in Mainebiz.
On March 4, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Ernest Moniz, director of the Energy Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), to replace Steven Chu as secretary of energy. The nomination has met with mixed reactions from environmentalists, who see Moniz as a proponent of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas and for nuclear power.
Read it all in the Huffington Post.
Photo credit: Massachussetts Institute of Technology
Kenneth Fletcher has resigned his post as the Director of the Governor's Energy Office and Patrick Woodcock of Hampden, who most recently served as Senator Snowe's senior adviser for energy and environment issues will succeed him on January 7, 2013.
Woodcock, a 2004 graduate of Bowdoin College, faces an uphill challenge to fill Fletcher's shoes, as reported in the Portland Press Herald.
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