Maine energy and electricity

Source topic or question: Energy, environment, and working waterfronts

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Lower Bills by Holding Utilities Accountable: Tie utility profits to lower bills, better performance, and customer satisfaction. Require the PUC to penalize poor service, reject unjustified rate hikes, and demand fair, transparent budgets that put Maine people over profits — including holding CMP, Versant Power, and their corporate parent Avangrid accountable. Drive down electricity costs: Direct the PUC to use every available tool to reduce bills — incentivizing utilities when rates go down, not up; facilitating electrification and efficiency; maximizing use of existing grid infrastructure; and ensuring modernization investments use the lowest-cost financing available. Target relief for low- and moderate-income households: Expand heat pump, home efficiency, heating assistance, and community solar programs so the benefits of clean energy reach every Mainer and lower costs for all households, especially those who need it most. Read Hannah’s full Energy and Climate Plan here.

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Source topic or question: Technology and communications

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Mainers deserve clean, reliable, and affordable power, not endless rate hikes and excuses. Hannah will hold utilities accountable and put Maine people — not corporate profits — first. She will expand homegrown clean energy, and make sure the transition to a clean economy lowers costs for families and businesses while creating good-paying jobs for Maine workers. She’ll protect Maine ratepayers from reckless AI data centers that threaten to drive up costs for our communities. Electricity is a basic necessity, not a luxury — and Hannah will make sure Mainers can count on reliable, affordable and increasingly cleaner power for their homes and businesses.

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Source topic or question: Technology and communications

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Enforce Guardrails Against AI Data Center Impacts & Costs: Speculative, power-hungry data center projects are looming across the country, and too often households are left paying the price – through higher electricity bills. Maine must enact a moratorium until we can ensure any new data centers pay their own way up front, offer benefits to host communities, and do not jeopardize the environment, health and wellbeing of their neighbors.

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Source topic or question: Energy, environment, and working waterfronts

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By partnering with unions, employers, and education institutions, Hannah will expand access to ongoing education and training that matches the jobs driving Maine’s economy today and tomorrow. These programs will promote flexible, hands-on learning for workers at all stages, prioritizing credentials, apprenticeships, and real-world experience in key sectors like construction, health care, manufacturing, and clean energy.

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Source topic or question: Energy, environment, and working waterfronts

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Delivers clean energy solutions that lower costs for families

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Source topic or question: Energy, environment, and working waterfronts

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Modernize Clean Energy Permitting: Remove unnecessary red tape and reform outdated processes to get more clean energy built and connected faster to lower electricity costs, while ensuring community benefits.

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Source topic or question: Technology and communications

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Clean Technology and Energy: Maine’s clean energy economy is already the fastest growing in New England. Hannah will reinvigorate Maine’s leadership in next-generation clean tech, investing in technologies that can lower energy costs and grow new jobs and the institutions and businesses driving adoption of these technologies.

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Source topic or question: Energy, environment, and working waterfronts

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Hold Polluters Accountable: Champion a Maine Climate Superfund Act so fossil fuel companies pay for the damages they caused, not Maine taxpayers. Require full manufacturer disclosure and responsibility for cleanup of toxic PFAS, continuing Hannah’s long record of protecting public health and holding chemical companies accountable.

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Source topic or question: Energy, environment, and working waterfronts

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Deliver 100% Clean Energy: Deliver 100% clean energy by 2040, reducing reliance on costly imported fossil fuels, investing in responsibly sited clean energy that benefits communities, and using regular competitive auctions to rapidly deploy local solar, wind, and energy storage that lowers costs for Maine people and businesses. Maine must pursue a “least cost” electricity supply through reform and modernization of the standard offer and other procurement processes.

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Source topic or question: Energy, environment, and working waterfronts

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Invest in the Clean Energy Workforce: Grow programs that create pathways to good-paying green jobs, expand apprenticeships and training opportunities, and open up clean energy careers to more Mainers.

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Source topic or question: Energy, environment, and working waterfronts

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Maine can’t wait for Washington to act — and under Hannah Pingree’s leadership, we won’t. Hannah believes the fight against climate change starts in our communities. As governor, she will invest in local climate solutions and ensure Maine remains a national model for climate action, storm preparedness and recovery, and community resilience. Her leadership means action on the ground and Mainers can count on stronger infrastructure, lower costs, healthier communities, and a future built to withstand the storms ahead.

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Source topic or question: Energy, environment, and working waterfronts

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The construction of hydroelectric dams has caused great environmental and economic harm by destroying wildlife habitat and blocking fish passage. I support removing the four lower dams on the Kennebec River given their relatively small contribution to the supply of electricity and the potential economic and environmental benefits of a free flowing river. I support removing or bypassing other hydroelectric dams as appropriate. I support installation of dam free kinetic hydropower facilities where they are suitable and create little or no environmental harm. https://blog.ansi.org/ansi/tidal-power-turbines-in-east-river/

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Source topic or question: Civil rights, democracy, and government accountability

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I supported the Pine Tree Power referendum to purchase Central Maine Power and Versant. https://www.maine.gov/meopa/electricity/utilities I still support purchasing these two entities and forming a customer owned non-profit. https://ctmirror.org/2023/11/11/maine-public-power-company-referendum-vote/

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Source topic or question: Energy, environment, and working waterfronts

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How many millions of dollars paid to these two companies by Maine residents are leaving Maine and going to Spain, Canada, and elsewhere? As governor, I will continue to support creation of a public, non-profit electric utility. Electricity is an absolute necessity for nearly all of the people of Maine and we should not be at the mercy of for profit, foreign corporations. I will support energy conservation to decrease demand relative to supply. I will support expanding electrical generating capacity through renewable means and I will encourage consideration of small scale nuclear power generating facilities. Maine must keep abreast of constantly changing technologies for wind, water, solar and nuclear power production. Regarding solar generation, facilities should be sited where they will do the least environmental and economic harm. Parking lots, rooftops, brownfields, etc. should be preferred locations. They should not be installed where they destroy or render inaccessible, valuable farmland.

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Source topic or question: Cut the Costs Crushing Maine Families — Lowering Energy Costs

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Too many Maine homes are leaky and not efficient. During our winters we feel it the most. The best way to save energy costs is to not use as much in the first place. As Governor, I will scale weatherization and energy-efficiency investments statewide so we can cut waste and lower monthly bills and make your home more comfortable.

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Source topic or question: Cut the Costs Crushing Maine Families — Lowering Energy Costs

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#2. Lower energy costs for manufacturers and Maine’s heritage industries

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Fighting Climate Change

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