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The Bodwell Water Power Company Plant, also known as the Milford Plant of Emera Maine (formerly Bangor Hydro), is a hydroelectric power generation facility on the Penobscot River in Milford, Maine. Its main building, a handsome Romanesque structure, stands at the eastern end of the Milford Dam. Built in 1906, it was at that time the largest ...
The Bangor Railway & Electric Company, founded as the Bangor Street Railway and renamed in 1924 as Bangor Hydro-Electric, operated trolleys on an electric railway between Bangor and Charleston, Maine, from 1889 to 1930. It began operation the year after the world's first widely successful electric trolley system debuted in Richmond, Virginia. [1]
This is a list of electricity-generating power stations in the U.S. state of Maine, sorted by type and name.In 2022, Maine had a total summer capacity of 5,126 MW through all of its power plants, and a net generation of 12,763 GWh. [2]
Starting July 1, Bangor Hydro District customers who consume an average of 500 kilowatt hours of electricity a month will see their bills rise about 1.4 percent. For a customer whose bill ...
The Ellsworth Dam is located between two bluffs which flank Maine's Union River, and rise to a height of more than 100 feet (30 m). [2] The dam consists of a series of buttresses, each set on a schist bedrock ledge, three feet thick, and spaced about 15 feet (4.6 m) apart, which provide support for two large slabs of steel-reinforced concrete that span the river between the bluffs.
Emera Maine was a utility with 130,000 customers in Maine, created through the merger of Bangor Hydro (acquired in 2002) and Maine Public Service (acquired in 2010). [5] In 2020, Emera Maine was sold to another Canadian utility, ENMAX of Calgary, Alberta. [6] Under ENMAX, the former Emera Maine territory now trades as Versant Power.
The Milford Dam is a dam on the Penobscot River between Old Town and Milford in Penobscot County, Maine.The dam received a new fish lift as a part of an extensive project involving four dams to restore eleven species of sea-run fish to the Penobscot River.
Graham Lake in Hancock County, Maine is a eutrophic reservoir formed by the construction of a hydro-electric power dam in 1922 four miles (6 km) upstream from Ellsworth, Maine. The first dam was a hastily built earthen dam built by the Bangor Hydro Electric Company.