BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 29, 2025
President Donald Trump’s efforts to cut on funding for renewable energy initiatives may hit a rural Maine project that would be the world’s largest multi-day battery system. The potential loss of federal tax credits for the Lincoln battery storage project has brought together an alliance to back it: Democratic-aligned labor unions and U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, the top appropriator in the chamber. The Lincoln project is set to benefit from tax credits in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, the Biden-era bill Trump has sought to dismantle. Collins said she spoke with Trump’s energy secretary, Chris Wright, about the Lincoln project “and pointed out that it aligns with the administration’s energy policies, would help improve the reliability of the New England electric grid, and would be beneficial in using a shuttered paper mill in a rural area of the state.”