All Residential Electricity May Soon Be Exempt from Sales Tax in Maine
How much would any savings be compared to what all the green nonsense has cost us? Politicians should be crying bloody murder over states like NY and Mass blocking new natural gas pipeline construction rather than focusing on tiny band-aids for the damage they have done.
All Residential Electricity May Soon Be Exempt from Sales Tax in Maine
By Libby Palanza
February 17, 2026
Maine lawmakers are poised to support a bill expanding the state’s sales tax exemption for the sale and delivery of residential electricity.
Originating as a proposal to establish a refundable tax credit worth as much as $600, LD 2078 has since been amended to a more straightforward expansion of the existing structure.
Under current state law, the first 750 kilowatt hours of electricity are exempt from sales tax, as well as “off-peak residential electricity used for space heating or water heating.” Any electricity consumed by customers enrolled in low-income assistance programs is also exempted from sales tax.
The sponsors amendment offered by Rep. Kilton Webb (D-Durham) seeks to eliminate these qualifying categories, allowing the sale and delivery of all residential electricity across the board to be exempted from sales tax.
According to an Axios report from this past summer, Mainers saw the highest year-over-year increase in electricity costs nationwide between 2024 and 2025.
In just one year, from May 2024 to May 2025, Maine’s average residential energy costs increased by a staggering 36.3 percent.
Nationwide, there was an increase of just 6.5 percent during this same period.
Continue reading at https://www.themainewire.com/2026/02/all-residential-electricity-ma...
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Comment by Dan McKay 1 hour ago
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What about the Efficiency Maine Trust tax and the carbon dioxide tax that has no basis to exist. Or the REC payments that have no basis to exist because the EPA endangerment rule is gone.What about the NEB tax; it is based on the endangerment act that is gone. The Republicans are dropping the ball by allowing all the attacks on fossil fuels to remain intact. The ratepayers have absolutely no allies in the Maine Legislature.
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Comment by Willem Post 8 hours ago
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That will be a false saving, because the state will just jack up some other taxes to offset the revenue loss
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
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"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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