BANGOR DAILY NEWS • March 15, 2022
A growing number of companies are pitching the benefits of community solar projects to electric customers looking for a way to reduce skyrocketing bills. They allow ratepayers to subscribe to a share of the power from new solar installations, so they can receive bill credits once a project is online. But community solar projects in Maine aren’t a promised cost saver. There’s a good chance many of the hundreds of projects that have been proposed in the three years since Maine opened the door to community solar won’t be built, as they wait in a long queue to connect to an electric grid that’s not set up for a proliferation of smaller-scale solar projects.