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The Community Resilience Partnership has updated its List of Community Actions to align with Maine Won't Wait 2024 strategies and recommendations. This list serves two roles: 1) as a self-assessment for enrolling communities to identify climate action priorities, and 2) as a list of community actions eligible for no-match Community Action Grant funds. The updated list has expanded from 72 to 96 actions, including new actions around waste management, land use policy development, and more. Join this webinar to learn more about the new and updated community actions eligible for no-match grant funding. Please pre-register here.

The Governor’s Infrastructure Rebuilding and Resilience Commission (IRRC) has developed Maine’s first Infrastructure Resilience Plan, to prepare communities and Mainers for future, damaging storms and support local and regional resilience activities. The Community Resilience Partnership will host a pair of webinars to share details from the plan and how communities and service providers can leverage the open CRP grant round as well as resources at the new State Resilience Office and Maine Office of Community Affairs for their local resilience priorities. Please register here.

Senior Program Director for Commercial Programs, Rick Meinking gives us a run-down of Efficiency Maine’s incentives for commercial and industrial electricity users, as they roll out their new program year. Register Here.

The Governor’s Infrastructure Rebuilding and Resilience Commission (IRRC) has developed Maine’s first Infrastructure Resilience Plan, to prepare communities and Mainers for future, damaging storms and support local and regional resilience activities. The Community Resilience Partnership hosts this webinar to share details from the plan and how CRP communities can leverage the open grant round as well as resources at the new State Resilience Office and Maine Office of Community Affairs for their local resilience priorities. Please register here.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved an initiative by ISO-New England called the Day-Ahead Ancillary Services Initiative (or DASI), to replace the Forward Reserve Market. This means there will be a small increase to the ancillary charges that all electricity suppliers, including our supplier, Constellation New Energy, will have to start paying to the ISO as they “serve up” energy to users. Starting in July, Constellation plans to pass this increase on to MPO members as allowed under the “Changes in Law” provision of your participant agreements. Brandon Fong from Constellation will unpack this new charge and what we can expect to see on our bills as a result of it.