The Energy Working Group will evaluate and recommend short- and long-term mitigation strategies to reduce gross and net annual greenhouse gas emissions from Maine's energy sector, as well as evaluate and recommend short- and long-term strategies and actions for adaptation and resiliency to climate change. For meeting details, agendas, minutes, and handouts, please visit our meeting calendar and search for this working group.
Working Group Members
Co-chairs
- Dan Burgess, Governor's Energy Office
- Ken Colburn, Symbiotic Strategies, LLC
Members
- Chad Allen, Longroad Energy
- Aaron Smith, Avangrid
- Alison Bates, Colby College
- Johannah Blackman, A Climate to Thrive
- Michael Burgess, Penobscot Indian Nation
- Martin Carriere, Bates College
- Steve Clemmer, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Ben Cracolici, Maine Public Utilities Commission
- Scott Cuddy, Maine Labor Climate Council
- Greg Cunningham, Conservation Law Foundation
- Eliza Donoghue, Maine Renewable Energy Association
- Matt Harrington, Maine State Legislature
- Bill Harwood, Office of the Public Advocate
- Audrey Hufnagel, Maine Youth for Climate Justice
- Gary Lamb, City of Hallowell
- Mark Lawrence, Maine State Legislature
- Ashley Luszczki, Maine State Chamber of Commerce
- Suzanne MacDonald, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Fortunat Mueller, Revision Energy
- Moise Mulamba, Ready Seafood
- Jason Parent, Aroostook County Action Program
- Reagan Paul, Maine State Legislature
- Lizzy Reinholt, Summit Utilities
- Julie Rosenbach, City of South Portland
- Gerry Runte, Maine State Legislature
- Guillaume Sebahutu, ReVision Energy
- Jack Shapiro, Natural Resources Council of Maine
- Michael Stoddard, Efficiency Maine Trust
- Patrick Strauch, Maine Forest Products Council
- Sarah Tracy, Pierce Atwood
- Jake Ward, University of Maine
- Tom Welch, consultant, retired PUC chair
- Tony Buxton, Preti Flaherty/Industrial Energy Consumer Group