Midcoast town wins dispute with CMP over solar project proposal

MIDCOAST VILLAGER • September 18, 2026

After months of regulatory uncertainty that town officials said cost Northport much of a summer’s worth of solar power, the Maine Public Utilities Commission has sided with the town in its dispute with Central Maine Power over a proposed municipal solar array on Beech Hill Road. In an advisory ruling issued Sept. 15, the three-member commission unanimously determined that a provision of Maine’s recently revised net energy billing law does not prohibit Northport’s proposed 38-kilowatt solar project from participating in the state’s net energy billing program.