Alliance members are working to achieve the Paris Agreement’s goal of keeping temperature increases below 1.5 degrees Celsius by reducing emissions, accelerating action, centering equity, and tracking progress. 

Explore Maine's policies and actions across the Alliance's 10 key policy areas. Numbers presented below only reflect the number of policies in this database and thus may not reflect all climate policies pursued.

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GHG Targets + Governance

Just Transition + Equity

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Pricing Carbon + Valuing Damages

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Efficiency Maine Trust Act

In 2009, the Act Regarding Maine's Energy Future (Public Law 372) established a new entity, the Efficiency Maine Trust, which became responsible for Maine's energy efficiency and renewable energy programs.

The C&I Custom Program incentivizes tailored energy efficiency and distributed generation projects that require site-specific engineering analyses and/or projects with energy conservation measures that are not otherwise covered by the C&I Prescriptive Program incentives. Funding levels range from a minimum of $10,000 to a maximum of $1 million per customer.

Examples of customers who have participated in the C&I Custom Program include hospitals, manufacturers, universities, commercial bakeries, food processors, office complexes, and data centers.

Commercial and Industrial Custom Program

LD 1673 - Resolve, Establishing a Working Group to Coordinate Collaboration Among State Agencies for the Purpose of Promoting Smart Growth and Development in High-use Corridors

Establishes a working group to coordinate collaboration among state agencies for the purpose of promoting smart growth and development in high-use corridors. The working group shall design a plan for agency coordination to maximize state resources and promote smart growth, walkable neighborhoods, mixed-use development and mixed-income housing in high-use corridors near higher-density downtowns, village centers or crossroads through infilling and redevelopment of underutilized lands. The working group shall also propose a plan for technical assistance grants to municipalities for the development of ordinances and zoning regulations governing high-use corridors including model transit-oriented development zoning ordinances for municipal consideration.

Maine has been allocated nearly $72 million in federal funding to support residential energy efficiency and electrification incentives. This funding is available under two distinct programs managed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and funded by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) Home Energy Rebates program: the Home Efficiency Rebates (HER) and Home Electrification and Appliance Rebates (HEAR).

Maine’s HEAR program will prioritize electrification of space heating by providing rebates for efficient heat pump systems in two categories of buildings occupied by income-eligible households: 1) new construction of affordable multifamily housing and 2) single-family manufactured (mobile) homes.

Maine’s HER program will provide rebates for efficiency upgrades in existing multifamily buildings that achieve a minimum of 35% energy savings. Though this program is technology-neutral, it will emphasize heating system retrofits that replace fossil fuel systems with heat pump technologies. Enhanced incentives will be available for projects in buildings serving low-income households.

Maine Home Energy Rebates

Maine Home Energy Rebates Funding Allocation

President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act established the Home Electrification and Home Efficiency Rebate Programs (together, the Home Energy Rebate Programs). The Home Energy Rebate Programs include $8.8 billion dollars in grant funding for states and Tribes to establish consumer home energy rebate programs, enabling communities to make homes more energy efficient, upgrade to electric appliances, and cut energy costs. Maine was allocated about $71.5 million.