MLA Business Member Spotlight: Midcoast Solar
- MLA Staff
- Mar 1, 2024
- 2 min read
Nate Curtis has been involved with solar energy installations for 22 years. Born and brought up in New Harbor, his grandfather was a lobsterman, as his cousins are now. His brother cultivates oysters. While fishing is part of his family’s history, Curtis took a different direction. He founded MidCoast Solar to bring community-based solar energy options to the state.
“I chose to go into solar energy because it means working with nature for a sustainable energy source that has low impact which can provide our communities with lower cost electricity that doesn’t pollute the air and ocean that my family and all of our coastal families depend on,” Curtis said.
Curtis noted that the Gulf of Maine is one of the fastest warming regions of the Atlantic Ocean; 2023 saw the Gulf’s temperature spike to record levels again. “I am committed even more to my mission of solar energy for Maine to help mitigate the environmental effects which we are seeing in the oceans that are devastating our fishing communities, our planet, our children’s future, and our livelihoods,” he said.
MidCoast Solar builds community solar farms that allow individuals and businesses to purchase subscriptions for solar-generated power. The electricity created by the solar farm offsets the electricity used by the subscribers. Each subscriber receives credits from their power company for the energy generated by the solar farm. In many cases, the credits zero out the existing utility bill.
“I am proud to support the Maine Lobstermen’s Association,” Curtis said. “I take every opportunity to educate visitors, new residents, and others on how Maine’s lobster fishery is the most sustainable fishery in the world and how climate change, regulations, offshore wind turbines, and other pressures are threatening the future of this essential industry and Maine’s coastal communities.”
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