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Sugarloaf to Add 300 Snowmakers
Morning Sentinel By David Robinson May 23, 2012 CARRABASSETT VALLEY — Sugarloaf on Tuesday announced its plan to install 300 new energy-efficient snowmaking machines, which should help avoid a repeat of this past winter, when historically low snowfall totals kept some skiers from hitting...
READ MOREPUC Approves Transmission Alternative for Midcoast
Portland Press Herald By Tux Turkel AUGUSTA — The Maine Public Utilities Commission today approved a pilot program to test alternatives to building costly new transmission lines in the midcoast region. The agreement between Portland-based GridSolar, the Maine Public Advocate, the Conservation...
READ MORELow-interest Loans for Heating Efficiency
ByBen McCanna Lewiston Sun Journal April 16, 2012 WINSLOW — For more than a decade, John and Sheila Bacon were throwing money out the window. More accurately, the couple was losing money through the walls of their poorly insulated 62-year-old Benton Avenue home. Not anymore. A year...
READ MOREHome Tour Offers Glimpse of Benefits from Insulation
By Betty Adams Kennebec Journal April 12, 2012 The 1947 home at the top of Carlisle Street has a new blanket of insulation in the attic, new foam insulation around the sills and a much warmer feel. It was possible because of a $11,000 loan from Efficiency Maine. Homeowner John Dickens pointed...
READ MORE2011 Year In Review
Click Here to access Efficiency Maine’s Year in Review, highlighting our residential and business program successes for Fiscal Year 2011. We delivered programs that will save a total of $449 million in lifetime energy savings. In other words, Maine businesses and homeowners would spend...
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