New England Grid > Maine
Resources: A measure of total energy production and consumption per capita
Market: The cost of consumption, measured in electricity prices and gasoline taxes
Infrastructure: Capacity to generate and refine energy sources; miles of pipelines
Maine is the most petroleum-dependent state for home heating, with more than 7 in 10 households using fuel oil as their primary heating source during the long, cold winters.
Crude oil is unloaded at the Port of Portland and sent through the Portland-Montreal pipeline to refineries in Quebec and Ontario.
Biomass—i.e. plant material and animal waste—accounts for more than one-fifth of Maine's net electricity generation, the largest share by far of any state. In rural Maine, the use of wood for home heating has increased as the price of home heating oil has risen.
Nearly 80% of the energy consumed in Maine is imported from other states.
Production trillion btu
Oil
Gas
Coal
Wind
Solar
Hydro
Biofuel
Nuclear
net energy Production trillion btu
Consumption trillion btu
Oil
Gas
Coal
Renewable
Nuclear
Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014
ME
USA
Key Policies
Requires new renewable resources to supply increasing shares of electricity sales, topping out at 10% in 2017.
Does not require motor gasoline to be oxygenated, unlike neighboring New England states.
Electricity net production, trillion btu
ME
USA