Escanaba MI. The pulp and paper mill therr produces enough electricity there to power the most of the population of tge UP of MICHIGAN...or all of Green Bay Wisconsin area for comparison.
Two dams and huge bio mass fired power plant.
They are not allowed to sell the excess power back onto the grid because of some government regulation.
I would suppose Maine had the same except, they closed most of their pulp and paper mills down.
Lots of readons for that and the biggest is foriegn paper imports into the USA.
One thing though. Canada has screwed itself. Potlach and Biewer, etc, are turning up the feed speed in their stud mills. About 5 to 6 hundred million board feet a year will be produced.
Called the Potlach wood buyer at Sawyer, they are licking their chops. Gonna get even and they actually are looking foreward to making ghost towns in Canada where there used to be stud mills.
The problem is most people hate those Potlatch and Biewer Red Pine studs. Just like most customers really don’t want to buy Southern Yellow Pine anything even IF it is $200/mbf cheaper. Most customers in the USA prefer to buy Spruce and Spruce/Lodgepole studs.
This is why European Nordic Spruce lumber has been so well accepted up and down the east coast. It is just better quality lumber.
Same story out west. Customers would prefer to buy Douglas Fir. DF is the preferred species out west with almost all customers. They do not want to buy SYP either. No matter what the price. In the desert they prefer to buy White Fir or Grand Fir. It works better in 120 degrees and 10% humidity.