BANGOR DAILY NEWS • August 13, 2020
A Searsmont-based energy company is suing a bankrupt Canadian firm, KMW Energy, Inc., based in Ontario, after alleging that a piece of faulty machinery it provided has cost the Maine company more than $10 million so far. Georges River Energy, an offshoot of the family-owned Robbins Lumber Inc., was founded to oversee a new co-generation plant that would produce electricity and steam for the lumber mill to operate its lumber drying kilns and heat its buildings. The plant would use sawdust, bark and chips from the lumber mill as fuel for the 8.5 megawatt steam turbine. KMW Energy is insolvent.