Maine Energy: Past, Present, and Future
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Tue, Dec 16, 2025; 12:00 PM
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12/16/2025 12:00 PM
12/16/2025 1:30 PM
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Maine Energy: Past, Present, and Future
This webinar will cover the energy history of Maine, the current energy status, and the projections into the future, with a slide deck of facts and photos of past and present energy infrastructure, and scenarios for the future in 2050. A Q&A time will be made available after a 40-minute presentation. The past, present, and future segments of the webinar are an adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic story A Christmas Carol.
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Organized By: Maine Chapter
Location: Virtual
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David Von Seggern
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Matthew Cannon
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Who doesn’t know Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol”? In it three ghosts relate the nature of Scrooge’s Christmas holidays past, present, and future. We have adapted this familiar storyline to Maine’s energy and invite you to share it with us in our one-hour webinar on December 16. Join us to learn how Maine’s energy future has evolved from past to present and how we wish it to evolve from present to future. Scrooge will see a reliable, economical, clean, renewable energy future.
Panelists include:
- Eliza Donoghue: Eliza is Executive Director of Maine Renewable Energy Association (MREA), a non-profit association of renewable energy producers, suppliers of goods and services to those producers, and other supporters of the renewable energy industry. In her role, Eliza represents the renewable energy industry before the Maine Legislature and the Maine Public Utilities Commission.
- Phil Coupe: Lobsterman, worm-digger, newspaper reporter, award-winning entrepreneur, environmentalist, social impact activist—panelist Phil Coupe has taken a winding career path that has led him to a conviction that the central human purpose is to make life better: for family, community, society and ourselves. His experiences eventually led to the startup of Maine-based ReVision Energy, a certified B Corp and 100% employee-owned company with a mission to Make Life Better by Building our Just & Equitable Electric Future.
- Beth Woolfolk: Over the past several years, Beth has led A Climate to Thrive’s efforts to advance an equitable clean‑energy transition in Maine. Her focuses include grid flexibility, microgrid resilience hubs, solar interconnection, and financial modeling for both individual and community solar ownership, and expanding access to the economic and resilience benefits of solar for underserved communities.