Governor Janet T. Mills (D), Addresses the 200 or so at the First Aannual Housing Summit at Oean Gateway, Portland, Earlier This Year..

Governor Janet T. Mills (D) will participate in the 45th Annual Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers in Boston, Massachusetts.  The two-day conference starts tomorrow, Monday, September 9th.

The annual convening brings together Governors from across New England and Eastern Canadian Premiers to discuss shared-cross-border priorities.  This year’s conference, hosted by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, will focus on energy and the clean energy transition.  Governors and Premiers will discuss goals, along with the offshore wind supply chain and hard-to-decarbonize sectors,’

Maine is a leader in clean energy deployment and innovation earning national recognition for its record-setting heat pump adoption and winning a $147 milion federal grant award to develop  the world’s largest multi-day energy storage systems in Lincoln. In August, Maine finalized an agreement with the Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to develop the nation’s first floating offshore wind research array in the Gulf of Maine.  The state’s clean energy sector is expanding rapidly with over 15,000 people employed, more than halfway to Governor Mills’ goal of 30,000 clean energy worrkers by 2030.  Maine continues to engage in regional planning and coordination with neighborhing states to create a sronger, more reliable, and resilient electric grid and accelerate the clean energy transition across the state and region.

Tomorrow, Governors and Premiers will visit   a clean energy site and attend a welcome workshop at Fenway Park.  On Tuesday, participants will participate in roundtable meetings and a press conference at  the Boston University Center for Computing & Data Services.

The eleven members of the Conference are:  Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Quebec.

For more background information on the flating offshore wind research lease between Maine and the    Federal government, please visit post herein dated August 19, 2024.