A University of Maine Cooperative Extension and six Maine schools are moving forward with oil-to-wood heating projects with the announcement that they will collectively receive more than $3.2 million in federal recovery funds.

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In February President Barack Obama announced a series of steps his Administration is taking as part of its comprehensive strategy to enhance American energy independence while building a foundation for a new clean energy economy.

At a meeting with a bipartisan group of eleven governors, including Governor Baldacci from Maine, the President laid out three measures that will work in concert to boost biofuels production and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

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A massive hanger on BNAS. The base has nearly two million square feet of industrial and commercial space that could be used to build wind turbines and component parts.

Instilling confidence that Maine is the right partner to work with in producing wind turbines was a clear objective of Maine’s delegation that hosted the Norwegian company’s visit. Another stop along their tour was the soon-to-be decommissioned Naval Air Station Brunswick.

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Last fall, Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, which ships natural gas through Maine to Massachusetts, tripled its capacity under its Phase IV project with a new 146-mile pipeline. The natural gas is compressed in Brewer. This $300 million Phase IV expansion project went on line in January, 2009, and has made it possible to deliver natural gas daily to markets in Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Atlantic Canada.

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Maine will receive more than $1.7 million from the sixth Regional Green House Gas Initiative, RGGI, auction, part of a regional cap and trade program used to regulate greenhouse gases.

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As Congress prepares a package of tax provisions for floor action, Congressman Mike Michaud is pushing for an extension of a tax credit that supports the production of renewable energy at biomass facilities. The tax credit, which has been used by Maine paper companies, currently goes to facilities that produce electricity using open-loop biomass.

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Efficiency Maine—a program of the Maine Public Utilities Commission—has just awarded 11 organizations up to $50,000 each for renewable electricity demonstration programs.

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Maine’s Department of Conservation has an online interactive map that allows users to see the various layers of information that have directly affected the search for suitable areas to test new wind energy technologies.

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Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection has developed a user friendly guidebook to help small businesses find important information regarding environmental laws and regulations which protect our natural resources.

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