BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 17, 2024
Maine has an opportunity to implement new policies to make it easier for people to go solar. Interconnecting solar to the grid can be difficult, but it yields immense benefits, including helping our state reach its climate and decarbonization goals, allowing Mainers control over their long-term energy costs and creating tangible economic and environmental benefits for all Mainers, such as reducing energy supply and transmission costs. I believe our current grid has ample opportunity to interconnect distributed energy resources like solar. To do this work, we need predictable and transparent utility processes, enforcement of the rules on the books and new requirements that enable us to utilize batteries to increase interconnection capacity. ~ John Luft, ReVision Energy