Central Maine Power Company has a $1.5 billion plan to greatly expand its power lines throughout Maine. It'll mean taking land from homeowners by eminent domain, stringing high-voltage power lines next to homes and recreation areas, leveling thousands of acres of Maine woodland, and destroying valuable Maine wetlands to create vast right-of-ways for the massive power grid. It will also mean continued reliance on fossil fuels and more air pollution.

There's a better way.

We can provide reliable electrical power by constructing small-scale solar facilities in open fields near several Maine communities - without the use of eminent domain, without destroying wetlands and with far less pollution.

Best of all, our plan will cost Mainers less money, will create more Maine jobs, will contribute to property taxes in our communities and will reduce our dependence on foreign sources of energy. All of these benefits derive from one fundamental decision - Maine should develop solar energy in Maine rather than plough billions of dollars into transmission lines to bring coal, nuclear, natural gas and other generated electricity from places far away from Maine.

But we need your help

Our plan represents a new way of thinking, a new way of creating energy for Maine. As a result, there's a lot of resistance to change.

That's where you come in:

• Explore this website and read about our project
• Sign up for e-mail alerts
• Contact Gov. Baldacci, local officials and legislators and tell them to support the GridSolar project
• Share this site with your friends

With GridSolar, Maine can take a big step toward energy independence and lower our energy costs and carbon footprint. Find out how you can be a part of it.