{"id":5922,"date":"2019-05-18T09:51:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/?p=5922"},"modified":"2025-08-23T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T20:32:06","slug":"how-much-do-we-pay-for-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/2019\/05\/18\/how-much-do-we-pay-for-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Do We Pay for Electricity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5923\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2019\/05\/Evan-Zarkadas-explains-his-slides-to-the-viewers-of-his-presentation..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5923\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5923\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2019\/05\/Evan-Zarkadas-explains-his-slides-to-the-viewers-of-his-presentation.-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/05\/Evan-Zarkadas-explains-his-slides-to-the-viewers-of-his-presentation.-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/05\/Evan-Zarkadas-explains-his-slides-to-the-viewers-of-his-presentation.-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/05\/Evan-Zarkadas-explains-his-slides-to-the-viewers-of-his-presentation.-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2019\/05\/Evan-Zarkadas-explains-his-slides-to-the-viewers-of-his-presentation.-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evan Zarkadas explains his slides to the viewers of his presentation.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Electricity has become a necessity among many people today.\u00a0 People use it to watch movies, charge up phones and be able to see in the dark.\u00a0 Evan Zarkadas is a junior history major at the University of Maine at Presque Isle and chose this topic to be his presentation because he noticed that Maine has to pay higher prices for electricity. Our electricity doesn\u2019t come from the United States, it comes from Canada.\u00a0 \u201cMaine is the eighth most expensive state for energy costs,\u201d Evan said to the crowd of students.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Evan had plenty of slides, some showing graphs of how much Maine people pay for electricity and others on where transmission lines are located.\u00a0 He also discussed a new power line that may be going in.\u00a0 Evan says the idea didn\u2019t come overnight. \u201cI saw some articles in a newspaper and some other publications and some news.\u00a0 For example, the closure of the Ashland biomass plant and the problems that they had with transmission.\u00a0 It is a big issue in the state and I wanted to see what I can do, as a young citizen, to help them.\u201d Evan got most of his information from newspaper articles and government publications to collect his data.\u00a0 This took Evan a few months to get his initial thoughts in line.<\/p>\n<p>Evan will be proposing his ideas to the Policy Scholar Committee in November and during this time, he will be sending letters to the governor and the state.\u00a0 \u201cThe end project is a report with a recommendation to change policy,\u201d Larry Feinstein, his mentor, said.\u00a0 \u00a0Larry helped Evan with some of the research, but let Evan work on his own.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s a very motivated and very dedicated and his researching was exceptional,\u201d Larry said.<\/p>\n<p>Evan is hoping that by giving the letters to members of the state legislature and the governor, it will help them make a decision to better Maine\u2019s transmission and better distribute electricity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electricity has become a necessity among many people today.\u00a0 People use it to watch movies, charge up phones and be able to see in the dark.\u00a0 Evan Zarkadas is a junior history major at the University of Maine at Presque Isle and chose this topic to be his presentation because he noticed that Maine has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8467,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5922\/revisions\/8467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.umpi.edu\/utimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}