Energy News Roundup: November 12-November 18

This week in regional energy news …

• Between 2004 and 2009 Maine residents cut their heating oil use by 45 percent.  Maine remains, however, the country’s most oil-dependent state for home heating.
• Anbaric Transmission, a Massachusetts company, has filed a request with ISO New England for interconnection of a proposed transmission line that would carry up to 2,000 MW of offshore wind energy to land.  The offshore generation projects that would interconnect with the line are each over 25 miles from the coastline.
• In an effort out of its Brunswick, Maine, office, the Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences reminds us of the naturally carbon-reducing power of trees.  The center’s new program, the Clean Water Carbon Fund, gives the public the chance to purchase trees for $6 to be planted along the shores of waterways that are overexposed to carbon.
• On Thursday, December 15, E2Tech will host a breakfast forum with Efficiency Maine representatives to discuss residential and commercial energy efficiency programs.  Event details are available at E2Tech’s Web site.