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Renewable Energy

Because most basic services, such as electricity, communications infrastructure, oil and gasoline, must all be transported to the islands, their rising costs are becoming prohibitively expensive for many islanders. 
 

Our People

Some of our talented people working in this area.

Bill McGuinness
Bill McGuinness
Islesford Neighborhood House Executive Director
Eliza Greenman
Eliza Greenman
Cranberry Isles Sustainable Community Development Fellow
Gillian Garratt-Reed
Gillian Garratt-Reed
Marine Programs Coordinator
Kate Power
Kate Power
Long Island Recreation Center Fellow
Katie Chapman
Katie Chapman
Alternative Energy Fellow
Robert Snyder
Robert Snyder
Vice-President of Programs
 
Shey Conover
GIS Specialist
 

Galleries

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Fox Island Wind Project - GroundbreakingFox Island Wind Project - Hoddy HildrethFox Islands Wind Project - Philip Conkling
Island in Maine


Collaboration

In order to be sustainable, island and coastal communities need to be affordable.  They must also address the impacts that they have on the environment. To address these issues of economic and ecological sustainability, the Island Institute has recently initiated multi-faceted efforts to investigate and develop alternative energy.  

We are currently partnering with the Swan’s Island and Fox Islands Electric Cooperatives to explore the feasibility of developing community-wind projects.  If constructed, these small-scale and community-based projects would provide electricity for Vinalhaven, North Haven, Swan’s Island and Frenchboro.

 

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