Maine Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator

The Maine Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator is a specialized finance program designed to drive private capital into market gaps for goods and services producing low or no greenhouse gas emissions. According to Title 35-A, Part 8, Chapter 97 of the Maine Revised Statutes, qualified projects include solar, wind, and geothermal projects, projects using fuel cells to store energy, projects that are biomass generators fueled by wood, landfill gas, or anaerobic digestion, industrial decarbonization, and fuel switching projects, which are defined as any project which replaces a heating system or industrial process using fossil fuels with a system that produces lower net greenhouse gas emissions.