6/04/2010

Did you know? Maine


  • The Port of Portland receives crude oil shipments, which it then sends via pipeline to refineries in Quebec and Ontario.
  • About three-quarters of Maine’s households – the highest share in the Nation – use fuel oil for home heating.
  • Maine generates a larger share of its electricity from nonhydroelectric renewable resources than any other State.
  • Maine is the only New England State in which industry is the leading energy-consuming sector.
  • Maine has the highest wood and wood waste power generation capacity in the United States.

source: Energy Information Administration

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