Our project provides resources to help Maine businesses ‘On The Pathway To 100% Clean Energy.’ The How-To Guidebooks are free and immediately available to you through this website. There’s also a growing network of Consultants, Contractors, and Financial Services organizations who can help guide you and provide the professional services, equipment, and information about available ways to finance improvements or upgrades to facilities or systems. Explore these resource here, and please feel free to contact us for more information and support.

How-To Guidebooks

Learn best practices to optimize, electrify and "clean energize" your company or farm in our do-it-yourself, "how to" guidebooks.

Pathway Support Network

Like many business owners ‘On The Pathway,"‘ you’re likely to want to talk with professionals—knowledgeable consultants, contractors, and financial services firms—who share your values, and are with you ‘On The Pathway To 100% Clean Energy.’ They’ve got the expertise to help you plan your transition to clean energy, in practical ways, over time. Members of the Pathway Support Network can help you specify, purchase and install the clean energy equipment or systems that allow you to stop burning fossil fuel, and achieve savings with optimized facilities and equipment, and electrified and renewable energy equipment or systems. This network is a free matchmaking service to help you find the right partners to achieve your milestones. Of course, once you’ve decided to work with any of the firms or organizations in the network, you’ll want to establish budgets and levels of investment that work for your business.

Other Resources

Efficiency Maine

Efficiency Maine is a quasi-state agency that manages a trust fund with annual expenditures of approximately $50 million for programs to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Maine. The trust serves the residential, commercial and industry sectors and all regions of the state.

Virtual Efficiency Consultations

Businesses can request a free Virtual Customer Consultation with the Efficiency Maine program team to discuss lighting, heating, and cooling; to learn about financial incentives, and to understand the process for obtaining rebates from the quasi-public trust fund. Consultations are not energy audits.

These virtual meetings will be held via Microsoft Teams, Google Meets, or Streem web meeting platforms.

There are three ways to request a virtual consultation:

1. Submit a request form through the Efficiency Maine website here.

2. Call the Efficiency Maine Call Center at 866-376-2463.

3. Email the program team at CIP@efficiencymaine.com