Harpswell Renewables
Notes and links on climate science and energy — sharing what we find worth reading.
New Hampshire Can't Leave the Grid Without Taking Maine With It
New Hampshire spent $230,000 asking whether it could quit the New England power grid. The answer that came back in July was no — and the most interesting reason has nothing to do with New Hampshire. ...
Maine Closes Bids on 1,200 MW of Northern Wind and Transmission
Maine’s Public Utilities Commission has closed bidding on a procurement seeking at least 1,200 megawatts of renewable generation and the transmission to move it — the headline item in this month’s scan of energy news across Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. ...
Ocean Heat Sets Records
Climate graphic of the week: Oceans set heat records for more than 365 days in a row ...
Climate Scorpion
via the UK’s IFoA - Earth’s climate may be more sensitive than we thought ...
Warmest January on Record
Daily sea surface temperatures continue to rise, click thru for chart. ...
PowerOutage.us
PowerOutage.us “collects, records, and aggregates live power outage data from utilities all over the United States, with the goal to create the single most reliable and complete source of power outage information available.” We’ve added a direct link to the Maine data in the menu bar, see “Maine Outage Status.”