A few days before Statoil announced it was pulling the plug on its $120 million offshore wind energy project in Maine, the Maine Public Utilities Commission raised the possibility that a larger pool of money is available to support offshore wind projects than previously thought. This is significant because one of the challenges the PUC faced […]

Kerry Gallivan, CEO of Chimani, on Tuesday morning will pitch his business to a live radio audience of 3.5 million people. Chimani is Kerry’s brainchild. It builds mobile apps that visitors to U.S. national parks can use to find out everything from which hiking trail to take to where to jump on a shuttle bus. […]

On Wednesday, Beth Brogan and I broke the news that Kestrel Aircraft Co., which employs about 40 people at Brunswick Landing, is late on paying rent, vendors, and has been unable to cover employees’ insurance premiums. Alan Klapmeier, Kestrel’s CEO, confirmed the financial struggles, but said renewed funding is on its way that will right […]

The Maine Department of Economic and Community Development has a new logo, which it slipped into the program for the 2013 Base Redevelopment Forum, which began today in Portland. Doug Ray, the DECD’s communications director, confirmed for me on Wednesday morning that it was a new logo, but that the department hadn’t made any big announcement […]

It is just past 7 p.m. when Chris Hall, CEO of the organization formerly known as the Portland Regional Chamber (more on that later), announces he is out of things to say. The crowd of 500 people packed into the State Theater for the chamber’s 159th annual awards dinner respond with applause and laughter. Not because […]

At a breakfast event in Portland, Tom Chappell, founder of Tom’s of Maine, gave a talk about entrepreneurship and why it makes good business sense to embrace a triple-bottom-line approach. Chappell was the first in Envision Maine‘s new speaker series, entitled Pioneers of Maine’s Next Economy. The idea being that well-known entrepreneurs have experiences to […]

In the wake of the Associated Press report about Gov. Paul LePage’s administration aggressively trying to derail Statoil’s offshore wind development project in the Gulf of Maine, I wrote today about how that may affect the Maine Public Utilities Commission’s evaluation of the University of Maine’s proposed offshore wind project. One thing I didn’t have […]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today unveiled new guidelines that limit the amount of carbon dioxide new coal- and natural gas-fired power plants will be allowed to emit. Interested to know if these new regulations will have any impact on Maine’s existing power plants or the cost Mainers pay for electricity, I called up Dan […]

Friday is it, the last day to nominate that deserving someone for one of Fusion Bangor’s annual awards. The group, formed as a network for the Bangor region’s young-ish professionals, will bestow three awards at its annual event, dubbed The Extravaganza, on Sat., Nov. 9 You can nominate someone for… Fusion’s Leadership and Vision Award, which […]