Saco Bay Marine Awarded Funds for Clean Energy Project Says Pingree

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) at an Event in Portland Last Year..

Saco Bay Marine, LLC, of Biddeford, a boatyard transiting to clean energy, was awarded a $28,710 grant to install rooftop solar according to a press release issued from the office of Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D) today.  It’s estimated this 19-kilowatt (KV) roof mounted solar photovoltac system will generate more than 94% of the businesses’ energy use per year.  The environmental benefits of the project include the equivalents of 2 homes taken off the grid, 18,338 pounds of coal not burned, or 3.6 gasoline-powered cars taken off the road

“The recent storms that devastated our working waterfronts have emphasized the very real and destructive impacts climate change is already having on our communities.  It is critical that we continue to move to renewable forms of energy and reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, while also improving the resillence of our working waterfronts and associated infrasructure,” said Pingree, a longtime farmer and member of the House Agriculture Committee.  ”

“Thanks to expanded funding in the landmark Inflation Reduction Act, USDA’s REAP program is making investmets in renewable energy projects like Saco Bay Marine in helping  make our aquacultural producers and rural small businesses more resillient in the face of the climate crisis.”

The IRA championed by House Democrats and signed into law by President Biden in August 2022, represents the single largest investment in climate and clean energy solutions in American history.  The IRA provides more than $10 billion to support USDA’s clean energy transition programs.