Tux Turkel writes primarily about energy issues affecting Maine. Over the years, he has gazed into the spent-fuel pool at the now-gone Maine Yankee nuclear plant, looked across Casco Bay from atop Wyman Station’s smokestack, and toured power plants and wind farms across the state, but remains confused about why electricity doesn’t leak from our wall sockets. When he’s not trying to make sense of dense regulatory filings at the Public Utilities Commission, he’s likely to be hiking in the mountains or visiting Maine’s coastal islands in his small motorboat. A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Tux lives in Yarmouth with his wife, youngest son, a cat and a guinea pig.
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PublishedJune 9, 2019
After pause, Maine may have missed the boat on offshore wind
The East Coast is poised for billions of dollars in investment from companies building wind farms in the ocean from Virginia to Massachusetts. Despite a bill in the Maine Legislature to get an experimental floating wind farm back on track, Maine will be challenged to regain the momentum it had prior to the LePage years.
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PublishedMay 28, 2019
Mills nominates energy veteran to chair Public Utilities Commission
Former state Senate Majority Leader Phil Bartlett is an attorney and former chairman of the Maine Democratic Party.
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PublishedMay 23, 2019
Summit to tap dairy cows to make pipeline gas
Summit Natural Gas unveils a plan to make biogas from cow manure on a farm in Clinton and pump it into their pipeline network.
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PublishedMay 14, 2019
Power companies and their critics clash over proposal for consumer-owned utility
Recent frustrations with CMP sparked a legislative proposal to form a public power authority in Maine.
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PublishedMay 13, 2019
Chairman’s departure leaves Maine PUC with vacancy at critical time
Mark Vannoy left as chairman of the Public Utilities Commission on May 3 and Gov. Mills has yet to nominate a replacement.
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PublishedMay 7, 2019
Lawmakers hear debate that shows sharp divide over renewable-energy bill
The new law would require increasing the percentage of electricity that Mainers get from biomass, solar, wind and other renewable sources.
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PublishedMarch 29, 2019
PUC staff recommends approving $1 billion CMP power line project
Read the report here. It boosts the plan for a 145-mile transmission corridor through western Maine to deliver hydropower from Quebec to markets in Massachusetts.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2019
How did Maine officials reach deal to accept CMP transmission line? This document sheds light.
The filing with utility regulators reveals some of the thinking of Gov. Janet Mills and the people who negotiated the controversial $258 million deal.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2019
Who paid for ad critical of Mills’ support for CMP power line? No one’s saying.
The ad, which started running Feb. 20, accuses the governor of making a ‘backroom deal.’
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PublishedFebruary 25, 2019
CMP chief pledges billing problems will be solved by end of March, but consumer group has doubts
Company President Doug Herling tells regulators, in response to the threat of fines, that the end of the billing backlog is near.
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