Solar projects that have already been approved will continue to follow the current structure in place, where projects are charged 5 cents per square foot, which is applied to the vertical footprint of solar panels.
The proposed plans are for a 48.9-kilowatt system to be installed on the roof of the town office, Piper said. The proposed contract would be a 25-year agreement for a system that generates about 61,000 kilowatt hours in the first year.
“EPR at its core is about two things,” Prindiville said. “It’s really about, ‘How do we design more sustainable, more circular systems’… and it’s about fairness. Who pays for those systems?”
LAMOINE — The ospreys that have called a utility pole along the S-curves on the Mud Creek Road home for several years are back, this time in a safer nest. The longtime nest was destroyed by a fire last year, so Versant Power crews designed and built an alternate nesting platform near the pole where …
Ellsworth resident and former legislator Ruth Foster teamed up with the Ellsworth Garden Club to raise money for a revitalization project. It got underway Tuesday when a crew from Atlantic Landscape Construction began pruning the 24 trees. Seven that are dead or too far gone to be salvaged will be replaced.
With the permits in hand, construction will begin during springtime and finish this fall. Construction costs are estimated at $1.6 million for one farm and $1.75 million for the second.
Nexamp Solar LLC is seeking approval for a 45-acre ground-mounted array on a 94.6-acre parcel at a development cost estimated at $11 million to $12 million. Ryan said the 4.9-megawatt array would hold around 12,000 panels in a free-standing array with no onsite power storage.
April is Earth Month, it’s officially spring and the weather has been cooperating nicely thus far, so it’s time to clean up the roadside.
Since 1989, Maine has had a goal of recycling 50 percent of its municipal solid waste, a goal that it has never come close to reaching (the rate was roughly 38 percent in 2019). Part of the reason Maine has struggled? A lack of reliable data, say officials at the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM).
The plan includes 183 recommendations, but the city would not be responsible for most, she noted. Green Ellsworth raised $200,000 to support the plan, said Frenchman Bay Conservancy Executive Director Aaron Dority.
“We’re getting close to a pivot point and a turning point, so I would say hang in there, and we’re going to continue under the same approach we have been to get the facility open.”
While no decisions have been made yet, Dority said, “Frenchman Bay Conservancy is very interested in the Wild Carbon program,” calling the program “visionary.”
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