PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • December 17, 2022
I own a share in a community solar farm. My solar credits keep growing, and if I can’t use them within a year they expire, benefiting nobody but Central Maine Power. Why can’t I donate some portion of my credits to a state “solar bank” that gets immediately used to offset electric bills for qualifying low-income households? Why doesn’t the state issue bonds to build state-owned, moderate- to large-scale solar farms, the output therefrom being designated to offset the electric bills of low-income Mainers. Electrons are completely fungible. ~ Mark Love, Falmouth