New England Grid > Maine

Resources Market Infrastructure Policy

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

29th Resources
41st Market
48th Infrastructure

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.

state-maine

Production trillion btu

0
Oil
0
Gas
0
Coal
3
Wind
0.00
Solar
13
Hydro
0
Biofuel
0
Nuclear

net energy Production trillion btu

-366
+16 Produced
382 Consumed

Consumption trillion btu

171
Oil
71
Gas
1
Coal
139
Renewable
0
Nuclear

Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014

ME
$0.48
USA
$0.46

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

+10
13.11¢
ME
8.81¢
USA