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Cuddledown upgrades lighting to keep costs down in Yarmouth headquarters
Lighting retrofits are the leading way Maine businesses can blunt a coming rate shock. The space is just a warehouse with boxes of down comforters. There’s no need for intense, always-on lighting. But until this month, the storage area at the Cuddledown factory here was lit with 76 fluorescent...
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State energy officials are encouraging Maine businesses to prepare for a sharp rise in electricity prices this winter. According to the Maine Public Utilities Commission, these price increases will be most pronounced for medium-sized business customers on the standard offer, as well as for...
READ MORELincolnville Community Library Completes Solar Project
Lincolnville Community Library recently completed their solar photovoltaic project with help from an Efficiency Maine Renewable Demonstration Grant. Combined with an efficient building envelope and ductless heat pumps, the library will operate at net-zero energy for much of the year. Find out...
READ MOREEnergy Efficiency Featured in Portland Sunday Telegram
“Hundreds of small, scattered energy-saving actions are shaving off so much electricity demand each year that, taken together, they equal the output of a 205-megawatt power plant, grid planners estimate. Over a four-year period, that’s the equivalent output of Maine’s largest power...
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