PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 4, 2021
Maine’s burgeoning solar industry is up in arms, after many developers received emails from Central Maine Power last week indicating that their projects are causing technical problems at substations that could require costly upgrades. The controversy is erupting as scores of solar developers are building and proposing projects in Maine worth hundreds of millions of dollars. “This is a major screwup,” Jeremy Payne, executive director of the Maine Renewable Energy Association, said on Wednesday. CMP spokeswoman Catharine Hartnett said the company is doing its best to address “the enormous and rapid growth in new solar projects” on a system that wasn’t designed for them.