CMP signs landmark agreement before PUC (smart grid, efficiency & utility-scale PV, Maine)

http://www.pressherald.com/news/cmp-signs-landmark-agreement-before-puc_2010-05-08.html

Solar panels connected to smart meters could feed electricity into the power grid, low-income residents could get $2.7 million to weatherize homes, and a special ombudsman could help landowners resolve disputes over power lines.

Those and other measures are in an innovative agreement signed Friday by Central Maine Power Co. and other parties in the utility's landmark transmission project case before the Maine Public Utilities Commission.

In exchange for funding energy-efficiency programs and making other concessions, CMP could begin work, as early as this summer, on upgrading its aging, high-voltage network, which runs 350 miles from Orrington to the New Hampshire border.

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But CMP's agreement to fund million of dollars in energy-efficiency programs and embrace new technology that can cut peak demand for power use creates conditions to control rates in the years ahead, said Richard Davies, the state's public advocate and a key party in the case.

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*and* 2000 jobs

:bounce:

will put this above 60% by 2015

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/state/state_energy_profiles.cfm?sid=ME

yup!

:D

The right-wing Republican anti-renewable anti-environment pro-coal pro-nuke global warming deniers are unreccing this.
Why?
Because they are right-wing Republican anti-renewable anti-environment pro-coal pro-nuke global warming deniers.

yup!

But the largest reason for it to exist is to send the juice to the rest of NEEPOL.