What does Efficiency Maine do for Mainers?
Efficiency Maine helps businesses and residents save energy, save money, and reduce pollution created by the generation of electricity. It provides incentives, technical assistance, professional training, educational curricula and other services. Since it began in 2002, Efficiency Maine has helped avert the consumption of 3.8 million megawatt hours of electricity—enough to power nearly 600,000 Maine homes for a year—saving Maine business and residential consumers nearly $400 million. These savings will help avoid the emission of health-threatening pollutants from electric power plants, as well as pollution that contributes to climate change—in fact, as much carbon dioxide as would be produced by 44,545 cars over ten years will be avoided due to program efforts. The above findings are as of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009. In addition, Efficiency Maine provides training in efficiency products, services and techniques for professionals (like industrial facilities managers, architect
