PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • December 10, 2020
Maine has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Kingdom that is designed to enhance cooperation between the two governments “to pursue ambitious advancement in clean energy technologies and mutually achieve carbon neutrality by mid-century or sooner.” The memorandum, announced Thursday by Gov. Janet Mills and the minister of state at the UK’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, places a heavy focus on offshore wind power generation, in which the UK is an international leader while Maine is working on ambitious plans of its own. The primary purpose of the project is research, with a goal of working with the fishing industry to develop the technology in a sustainable way, the governor said.