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Monhegan

Monhegan

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Monhegan is an island community off the Maine coast with no submarine cable to the mainland power grid. The quasi-municipal Monhegan Plantation Power District generates all of the island's electricity itself, historically burning 30,000 to 35,000 gallons of diesel a year and now running cleaner microturbines alongside a solar array added in a 2016 power station upgrade. Because nothing ties the island to the mainland, surplus power has nowhere to go, so the community sizes its own supply to its own demand.

Community details

Climate
Coastal Maine
Infrastructure
Generator, Solar

Around here

Around Monhegan

Walk the Trails20.5 mi5 mi

Things to do1

Source: National Park Service. No claim to original U.S. Government works. · Public land: USGS PAD-US

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