[CPEO-MEF] REUSE, ENERGY: Former Brunswick Naval Air Station (ME) as "renewable energy hub "

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Navy base in transformation to renewable energy hub


By Christopher Cousins,
Bangor Daily News (ME)
June 21, 2012

BRUNSWICK, Maine - The former Brunswick Naval Air Station could  
become a center for the research and development of green energy  
solutions that benefit tenants at the former base with lower  
electricity costs if plans that have been in the works for several  
years move forward.

The former base, which is now known as Brunswick Landing: Maine's  
Center for Innovation, is in the process of transferring from  
ownership by the Department of Defense to private hands. Steve  
Levesque, executive director of the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment  
Authority, said approximately 70 percent of the land there will have  
been turned over by the Navy by next week.

Today, the property is rife with contrasts between gleaming new and  
renovated buildings and former military facilities that for the most  
part haven't been altered since the Navy moved out a year ago. One  
thing the Navy left behind is a closed-loop electricity delivery  
system that Levesque said opens the door for an ambitious project  
that years from now could result in a private electrical grid where  
electricity is generated on-site and sold to tenants at rates cheap

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For the entire article, see
http://bangordailynews.com/2012/06/21/news/midcoast/former-navy-base- 
in-transformation-to-renewable-energy-hub/

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Lenny Siegel
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a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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