This episode of Made in Maine takes a look at alternative energy.
Host Lou McNally visits the Maine
Solar House in Kennebunkport, a showplace for solar energy.
As owners Bill and Debbi Lord state on their Web site, “Why
pay for home electricity and heating fuel when the sun offers
a free alternative?” That’s a question lots of
Mainers may be asking themselves as heating costs continue to rise.
Next, viewers visit the Endless
Energy Corporation in Yarmouth, an engineering firm
created in 1987 and specializing in wind farms. The company
says its planned wind farm in the town of Redington
will produce 250 million kilowatt hours a year and displace
600,000 pounds of pollution a day that a fossil plant would
otherwise produce to generate the same amount of power.
Staying on the theme of energy and greener living, Made in Maine drops in on Pat Coon, co-founder of Energy
Works,
a mechanical contracting company in Liberty that – before
it sells or installs anything -- educates their clients about
the goal of energy savings and the reduction of environmental
waste.
This episode’s Entrepreneur Profile features the Hope
Spinnery, a small wind-powered fiber spinning mill
in the town of Hope. Bill Huntington is the fiber artist
in charge and also the owner of the business. A native
of Harpswell, Huntington is a self-taught knitter whose
fascination with the world of color and pattern led him
to move back up to Maine from Philadelphia ten years ago.
