BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 9, 2025
Evan Coleman has been connected to about 10 projects. Some of them never came to fruition, such as strawberry greenhouses and warehouses, and some did, including four battery storage facilities in Maine and Rhode Island. Now, Coleman is at the helm of his biggest gamble yet: reviving the shuttered Orrington trash incinerator, valued at $16.1 million in 2024, that sits on the shores of the Penobscot River. The 32-year-old is the majority owner of Eagle Point Energy Center, formerly known as Penobscot Energy Recovery Co. He bought the facility in February 2024 but it hasn’t burned waste in more than two years, due in part to a fire that tore through the building in October 2024. Coleman’s latest estimate for reopening EPEC is more than a year away, and will require $25 million of improvements and equipment.