Research snapshot · Energy · 13 September 2026

Energy efficiency code is building in Maine: 6 meetings on the record in 90 days

This page is a snapshot, cut 13 September 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Adoption and amendment of energy codes for new and renovated buildings, including stretch codes and the enforcement arrangements behind them.Our definition of the class.

Snapshot taken 13 September 2026, based on 62 dated municipal records flagged as energy efficiency code in Maine, spanning 31 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

Source documents 4 of 19 on this page link straight to the town's own record. The rest are available on request. Ask for access.

The story so far

The record starts in Presque Isle, 7 January 2013. Since then 31 Maine towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Brunswick on 28 July 2026.

The last 90 days put 6 meetings on the record, up from 4 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Planning Board, Town Council and Legislature — 132nd Legislature.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 202544
Dec 2025 to Feb 2026119
Mar 2026 to May 202644
Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 (current)62

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 11 meetings.

The towns on the record31, earliest first

Every Maine town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Presque Isleearliest 2013-01-07 · 6 meetings · latest 2026-01-01 · the ordinance Chapter 60 Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Ordinance
Falmouthearliest 2021-01-01 · 13 meetings · latest 2026-08-24 · the ordinance Ordinance 24-2027.pdf
Lewistonearliest 2022-03-28 · 1 meeting · latest 2022-03-28 · the agenda Planning Board Meeting Agenda - 03-28-22
South Portlandearliest 2022-06-08 · 1 meeting · latest 2022-06-08 · the posted document Regulation #5 - Standard Conditions of Approval - (Updated as of 06/08/2022)
Jayearliest 2022-12-12 · 1 meeting · latest 2022-12-12 · the minutes Dec 12, 2022
Yorkearliest 2023-02-22 · 1 meeting · latest 2023-02-22 · the minutes AgendaCenter minutes
Sanfordearliest 2023-03-07 · 2 meetings · latest 2024-08-12 · the document ENERGY CODE UPDATE COMPLIANCE WORKSHEET Opens in new window
Freeportearliest 2023-04-06 · 1 meeting · latest 2023-04-06 · the document Municipal Bulletin 04-06-2023 (PDF)
Bridgtonearliest 2023-09-27 · 1 meeting · latest 2023-09-27 · the minutes CDAC Minutes 9.27.23
Scarboroughearliest 2024-01-01 · 2 meetings · latest 2024-01-01 · the document Multi-Family Construction Package
Wiltonearliest 2024-02-08 · 2 meetings · latest 2025-01-07 · the minutes Planning Board Minutes 12-12-2024
Kennebunkearliest 2024-04-02 · 4 meetings · latest 2026-02-25 · the document 260003 Application Review Sheet
Windhamearliest 2024-05-01 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-05-01 · the document Newsletter_May 2024
Watervilleearliest 2024-06-13 · 1 meeting · latest 2024-06-13 · the posted document Draft- Goals and Policies June 13 2024 (PDF)
Bathearliest 2025-01-09 · 4 meetings · latest 2025-11-06 · the agenda 2025-11-06-Agenda.pdf(PDF, 79KB)

And 16 more towns on the record, in an account view.

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

24 August 2026 · Falmouth Town Council

the ordinance, on the town's own site Ordinance 24-2027.pdf

28 July 2026 · Brunswick Sustainability Committee

the meeting packet, on the town's own site Packet

1 June 2026 · Biddeford Sustainability Commission

the meeting packet, on the town's own site Sustainability Commission Meeting 2026-06-01 — Sustainability Commission

25 March 2026 · Wiscasset Climate Action Team

the meeting packet, on the town's own site Packet

Companies on this record133 companies, 45 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
Maine DEPFalmouth, South Portland, Wiscasset and 1 more
Aroostook Waste SolutionsPresque Isle
GMRIBath, Portland
GOPIFBath, Falmouth
Gulf of Maine Research InstituteFreeport, Wiscasset
KVCAPAugusta, Waterville
SMPDCBiddeford, York
ChrissieBrunswick
Maine Uniform Building and Energy CodeState of ME
Presque Isle Utilities DistrictPresque Isle
SilerBath
ACAPCaribou
ACTTBath
Alfond Youth and Community CenterWaterville
AmeliaBath
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)Hermon
ASHRAEScarborough
B R PROPERTY LLCCumberland
BACTSOrono
Be the InfluenceWindham
BerryDunnFalmouth
Casco Bay Estuary PartnershipPortland
CenergyAugusta
CensusFalmouth
Center for Environmental EnterpriseWindham
Central Maine PowerWiscasset
Climate to ThriveYork
Competitive Energy ServicesAugusta
ContractorAugusta
Craig Bearsley - Riser HeCumberland

And 103 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 13 September 2026; the topic is not. 43 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

How we can tell you about it ongoing

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Also at this scope: Energy efficiency code across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.

Energy efficiency code, Maine

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

Maine

every topic this state carries

Area

Energy

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

31

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

7 January 2013

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

6 against 4 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

13 September 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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