The Maine Community Power Cooperative needs 68 more LMI (low & moderate income) members in CMP territory to join their solar coop projects in Western Maine before the end of the year. LMI is fairly generous so more people would be eligible than you might think.
The project is a different ownership model than the normal "community" solar pitches you see in the mail. Members own a portion of the project, you keep the RECs (solar attribute of the power), and LMI members get 20% off their whole bill, not just the supply portion.
Anyone can sign up as a member in CMP territory. Residential members not LMI can get 15% off.
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- Two months after a woman said she found 250 blank Maine ballots inside an Amazon box that was shipped to her home, state officials said the investigation remains active. The woman turned the ballots into the Newburgh town office on Sept. 30. That same day, Ellsworth officials said a recent shipment of absentee ballots was missing the same number of ballots.
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