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Visit fwwebb.com/locations to find the nearest to you. 2 MEMA MAG | Spring 2021 Cavagna_MEMA_Ad 8.75x11.25.indd 1 1/25/21 10:50 AM Contents spring 2021 • volume 4 issue 1 8 12 MEMA Member Info 6 Meet our New Members MEMA’s membership continues to grow 7 From the Desk of Charlie Forging Maine’s energy future forward 8 130th Maine Legislature Session 13 12 Reviving Maine Energy Facts Educating Mainers on heating choices 13 Fuel Your LOVE Small acts of kindness fuel good 18 The Next Generation for MTEC 20 New educational video series launches 19 Tech Tips by the Granite Group Propane regulator tips 20 Biodiesel 101 Getting your questions answered 22 Q&A with Mike Estes 22 What the path to Net ZERO looks like MEMA MAG is a quarterly magazine designed to engage and communicate 24 Coping at the WHoworkplace can I add biodieselwith to members my withoperation? useful, timely, and member related content. MEMA MAG will be published four times each year by MARS Marketing LLC. Ideas by Diversified InsuranceIf you’re a fleetGroup and want to start using B20, just pump it into your diesel vehicles. Biodiesel blends don’t require any vehicle upgrades.Do If youyou have are a suggestiona retailer for or MEMA a fleet MAG? that Would operates you like to your ADVERTISE own fueling site, biodiesel is OR SUBSCRIBE? Contact Hannah Estes, Business Manager at MEMA. Email 26 MTEC 2021 Coursealso an Scheduleeasy switch from a supplyher at [email protected] and infrastructure standpoint. or call 207-729-5298. If you want blended fuel, ask your current Learn more here: mtecenter.com/courses/diesel supplier if they can get you product. Some biodiesel producers also supply blended fuel. To do your Copyright ©2021 MARS Marketing LLC & Maine Energy Marketers Association. All rights own blending, you will need reserved.a dedicated No part of this biodiesel publication may storage be reproduced tank or transmitted and blendingin any form or by system. any means, While there is an initial cost, the return on investmentelectronic or mechanical, is often including achieved photocopy, in recording, only or six any toinformation 18 months. storage and retrieval system, without permission, in writing, from MEMA and/or the publisher. Printed in Maine, USA. www.maineenergymarketers.comHow popular is biodiesel?3 U.S. biodiesel consumption rose 135 percent between 2011 and 2016, the most recent year stats are available from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.2 Anecdotally, countless public and private fleets are using the fuel, including FedEx, Florida Power & Light and the city of New York. 2www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec10_8.w FOR MORE INFORMATION Contact REG at (844) 405-0160 or [email protected]. regi.com © 2020 Renewable Energy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Every member of MEMA is eligible to sit on one or more of the Association’s Committees. All of MEMA’s operations are based on the “one compa- ny, one vote” principle. Each & every member company counts as each has one single vote. The largest member has one vote – the smallest member has one vote. We believe every company’s opinion is important and is weighed equally. Whether your opinion is brought to the table and voiced, however, is up to YOU! OUR 2021 COMMITTEES & TRUSTS Advertising Committee Membership Committee This committee is responsible for advising and assisting MEMA staff with This committee is responsible for establishing policies that will grow the advertising and communication campaigns and management of federally organization by attracting new members and retaining existing members provided NORA advertising funding. through clear focus on ensuring and delivering superior value to members. Chair: Claudette Townsend, Dead River Company Chair: Mark St. Germain, St. Germain Convenience Retailing & Transportation Education Committee This Committee is responsible for setting association policy on motor fuel This committee is responsible for establishing policies, providing advice, and convenience store issues. and aiding staff that guides planning and oversight of technical training and management level seminars for MTEC and the association. Chair: OPEN Chair: Roger Arsenault, Community Energy Governance Committee Heating Fuels Committee This committee is responsible for creating a model organization within the This Committee is responsible for setting association policy on heating fuels boundaries of its founding and operating documents (By-laws and policies) issues including: Propane, Heating Oil, and Liquid Biofuels. for the purposes outlined in these documents and for the full potential of board members. Chair: Charlie Page, Maritime Energy Health Trust Workers’ Comp Trusts This trust is responsible for the planning and management of the Self-In- This trust is responsible for the planning and management of the Self-In- sured MEMA group health, life, dental & vision insurance programs. sured Workers Compensation Trust. Chair: Tim Freeman, Daigle Oil Co. Chair: David Thompson, Waldo-Thompson Brothers Convention Committee Golf Committee This committee assists the MEMA and EMANH staff in the planning and This committee is responsible for the planning, fundraising, and execution execution of the Annual Northern New England Energy Conference. of the Association’s annual golf events. Chair: Jeff Murdy, Renewable Energy Group 4 MEMA MAGMAG || SpringSpring 2021 2021 Charlie Summers Megan Diver Hannah Estes Sarah Nadeau Christa Fairbanks President & CEO Vice President Business Manager Administrative Insurance Our Assistant Administrator Team Bryan Champagne Dan Weber Don Hobbs Jennifer Grace MTEC Senior MTEC Instructor MTEC Instructor Director of Marketing & Instructor Communication OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mike McCormack Charlie Burnham Claudette Townsend Downeast Energy Charlie Burnham Energy Dead River Company Chairman of the Board Vice Chair Treasurer Executive Board Mark St. Germain ~ St. Germain Tom Schwarm ~ Gould Technologies Michael McCormack ~ Downeast Energy Robert Luce ~ Valley Gas & Oil Company William Beck ~ Gulf Oil, LP Claudette Townsend ~ Dead River Company Saunya Urban ~ H.A. Mapes Inc. - Alt Marc LaCasse ~ Augusta Fuel Company Tim Heutz ~ Heutz Commercial Enterprise Association Board Carrie Tomforde ~ Irving Oil Charlie Burnham ~ Charlie Burnham Energy Jamie Robinson ~ A.E. Robinson Oil Co. Matt Poole ~ Colby & Gale Steve Flewelling ~ Irving Oil - Alt David Babcock ~ Adams & Fogg Oil Equip. Jim Carroll ~ J.P. Carroll Fuel Co. Roger Arsenault ~ Community Energy Robert Shibley ~ Bob’s Cash Fuel LLC Michael Estes ~ Estes Oil & Propane Steve Ness ~ Ness Oil Company Peter Buotte ~ Community Energy Company Robert Tracy ~ R.H. Foster Energy, LLC Max Marston ~ Fabian Oil Carter Vaillancourt ~ Daigle Oil Company Jonathan Mapes ~ H.A. Mapes Inc. Jeff Murdy ~ Renewable Energy Group Deanna Sherman ~ Dead River Elwin Scott ~ Simard & Sons, Inc. Rob Cort ~ Maine Energy Inc. Greg Krise ~ Eastern Propane & Oil, Inc. Charlie Page ~ Maritime Energy Marc Dorsey ~ Sprague Energy Jim Pike ~ Energy Kinetics Michael Tammaro ~ V.L. Tammaro Oil Co. Mark Gagnon ~ P. 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