{"id":2784,"date":"2014-06-19T18:09:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T18:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2014-07-01T18:13:30","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T18:13:30","slug":"mike-duguay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/mike-duguay\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 116: Director of Business Development at Summit Natural Gas of Maine Mike Duguay"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show:<\/strong>\u00a0116
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday,\u00a0June 14
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Mike Duguay
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Director of Business Development at Summit Natural Gas of Maine<\/a> Michael \u201cMike\u201d Duguay grew up in Fairfield, Maine.\u00a0 Duguay is a University of New Hampshire graduate with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Political Science and a minor in Community Development.\u00a0 Stevoe and Duguay discussed what the average\u00a0room\u00a0temperature setting should be for maximum comfort, as well as the benefits\u00a0of natural gas for residential or business locations.<\/p>\n

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TideSmart Talk with Stevoe host Steve Woods (left) was recently joined by the Director of Business Development at Summit Natural Gas of Maine Mike Duguay (right) to discuss the benefits of natural gas.<\/p><\/div>\n

Prior to Summit Natural Gas, Duguay served as the director of economic development for the City of Augusta. \u00a0In his role, he provided direct services to businesses ranging from government liaison assistance to incentive packages. Responsible for creating and implementing economic growth strategies for the City of Augusta.<\/p>\n

Duguay has also served as the executive director of the Mid-Coast Council for Business Development (MCBD) in Brunswick, Maine.\u00a0 At MCBD, he managed a 501c (4) private development corporation that served Brunswick, Bath and Topsham and that was tasked with business attraction, business expansion, business retention and business lending.\u00a0 Duguay also served as a business development specialist with the State of Maine\u2019s Department of Economic and Community Development.<\/p>\n

Started in 1997 by Mike Minkos and Tim Johnston, Summit Natural Gas of Maine is a subsidiary of Summit Utilities, Inc.\u00a0 Headquartered in Augusta, Summit Natural Gas of Maine has already installed more than 130 miles of pipeline in central Maine which will create more than 400 jobs by building a natural gas pipeline to serve 15,000 homes and businesses in the Kennebec Valley within five years. \u00a0Additionally, they plan to install nearly 250 miles of pipeline in Cumberland, Falmouth, and Yarmouth creating an estimated 200 jobs, which will serve about 8,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in the three towns over the next five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director of Business Development at Summit Natural Gas of Maine Mike Duguay recently joined Steve Woods for an interview on TideSmart Talk with Stevoe. The two discussed where natural gas comes from, as well as how much natural gas is available. They also talked about the recent expansions of natural gas lines into Cumberland, Falmouth and Yarmouth. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}