{"id":2887,"date":"2015-02-04T17:35:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T17:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2015-11-12T16:07:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T16:07:41","slug":"jeremy-payne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/jeremy-payne\/","title":{"rendered":"Show 119: Executive Director of the Maine Renewable Energy Association Jeremy Payne"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Show Information<\/h5>\n

Show:<\/strong> 119
\nAir date:<\/strong> Saturday, January\u00a031
\nGuest:<\/strong>\u00a0Jeremy Payne
\nHost:<\/strong> Steve Woods (Stevoe)
\nStudio Contributor<\/strong> Debi Davis
\nExecutive Producer:<\/strong> Shannon Maguire<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Jeremy Payne grew up in Massachusetts, and earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in Communications from the University of Maine.\u00a0 Payne gained valuable experience in Maine governmental affairs as the Director of External Affairs for the Office of the Governor, to Maine\u2019s then Governor Angus King, from 2001-2003.<\/p>\n

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Host of TideSmart Talk with Stevoe Steve Woods (left) sat down with\u00a0Executive Director of Mane Renewable Energy Association Jeremy Payne (right)\u00a0to discuss energy and the environment.<\/p><\/div>\n

From January 2004 through May of 2008, Payne worked as the Government Affairs Director for the Maine Association of Realtors.\u00a0 In this position, he gained experience in both public policy and legislative advocacy.\u00a0 A major aspect of this postion was to ensure legislative action taken at state and federal levels was advantageous to homebuyers and home sellers in Maine.<\/p>\n

Payne became the Executive Director of the Maine Renewable Energy Association (MREA) in June of 2008. In this role he acts as the voice in the Maine Legislature and in front of the Public Utilities Commission.\u00a0 He advocates for fair regulatory and legislative oversight to support new and existing renewable generation, reasonable business practices, and environmental stewardship throughout Maine.<\/p>\n

Maine Renewable Energy Association<\/a>\u00a0(MREA) is a non-profit association of renewable energy producers, suppliers of goods and services to those producers, and supporters of the renewable power industry in Maine.\u00a0 Their power producing members manufacture electricity in a sustainable manner from hydro, biomass, wind, tidal, and waste to energy.\u00a0 MREA represents the renewable power industry at the State Legislature and before the Maine Public Utilities Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jeremy Payne Executive Director of the Maine Renewable Energy Association was welcomed into the TideSmart Talk with Stevoe studio by host Steve Woods. The two talked about how with Payne growing up in Newton, Massachusetts and Stevoe being from Newton, that they are long-time rivals. They also discussed Payne’s experience working with Maine\u2019s then Governor Angus King, and the public’s general expectations of the government. 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\/2887"}],"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=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tidesmartradio.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}