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• Cleantech Open 2015 launches in Maine

  • When
    Monday, March 16, 2015
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    6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Think Tank Coworking, 533 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101

  
  

  The Cleantech Open is a premier accelerator and pitch-contest program for energy and environmental startups. Its mission is to find, fund, and foster entrepreneurs with big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental, and economic challenges. The program provides extensive mentoring, training, business clinics, access to investors and capital, and numerous opportunities to showcase to the media and the public. 

  Are you…

  • An entrepreneur accelerating a big idea?
  • An executive looking for a way to mentor Maine’s energy and environmental startups?
  • A lawyer, investor, or consultant curious about emerging companies in Maine?
  • Looking to expand your cleantech network?

  
  

  Join us for an intimate briefing to hear from Cleantech Open staff and learn more about how the program can help you grow your cleantech venture, expand your businesses’ services to young companies, or mentor entrepreneurs looking to solve our biggest environmental and energy challenges.
  

  
  

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  With Guest Speaker

  Don Gooding, Executive Director, Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development

  Host speakers

  Jeff Marks, Executive Director, E2Tech

  Bonnie Frye Hemphill, Maine Innovation & Cleantech Connector, E2Tech 

  Katie MacDonald, Director, Cleantech Open Northeast

  Cleantech Open Alumni Speaker

  ...to be announced soon!

  
  

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  so we have enough snacks and beer.

  
  

  Already know you’ll be applying to the Cleantech Open 2015? Check out the application discounts:

  • March 1^st Super Early Bird
  • April 1^st Early Bird
  • May 1^st Final Deadline

  Interested in sponsoring? Let Bonnie know.
  

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• Renewable Energy Subsidies: Investment or Entitlement?

  • When
    Wednesday, March 25, 2015
  •  
    7:30 AM - 10:00 AM
  • Location
    Governor Hill Mansion, 136 State Street, Augusta, ME

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  Maine has one of the strongest renewable portfolio standards in the country, requiring 40 percent of total electric supply to come from renewable energy sources by 2017 (with 10% from new sources). A national study finds that the alternative energy industry will continue to grow in Maine, estimating $1.9 billion in private investment by 2023. Should energy consumers in Maine continue to pay for the RPS in their rates? Should policymakers strengthen the RPS, weaken it, or carve out support for some generation resources (e.g., thermal heat)? Should Maine seek to join with other states in a regional RPS?
  
  Should ratepayers in Maine pay for solar and wind installations and incentives because there’s value to the grid? If we’re seeking to subsidize natural gas infrastructure to diversify our energy portfolio and reduce costs to ratepayers, why not wind and solar to diversify our portfolio?
  
  What is the role of renewable portfolio standards, integrated resource management with long-term contracts, feed-in tariffs, community pilot projects, and rebates in Maine energy policy?
  
  These questions and issues are critically important to Maine’s energy, economic, and environmental policies, plans, and projects.

  
  

  
  

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