The 1,300 people who call Eastport, Maine, home live in the easternmost point in the continental United States. The bridged island, connected to the mainland by a single causeway, faces powerful Atlantic Ocean winds and is susceptible to disruptive power outages. But it was not always that way.
“When the power in Eastport went off, you could count to 15 and this substation would power back up,” Eastport City Council Member Jeanne Peacock said. “People here were used to never being without electricity, which is kind of nice when you’re 7 miles out into the ocean and there’s a lot of wind and weather. So people would like to have that back.”in 2021.
When Eastport joined the ETIPP program, Ocean Renewable Power Company , a Maine-based marine energy organization, was already looking to grow the scale of its tidal power deployment, said Suzanne MacDonald, an NREL community engagement expert based in mid-coast Maine. Eastport also has volatile and increasing energy prices, with utility rates that increased more than 40% from 2022 to 2023, after an 88% increase the previous year.
“We have a number of people on fixed incomes, so if they could get their electricity rate, that bill down, that’s just going to be such a bonus,” Peacock said.
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