A remote US island will soon power itself with an untapped rare source: 'One of the best sites in the country'

A remote US island will soon power itself with an untapped rare source: 'One of the best sites in the country'

A remote U.S. island hopes to develop a world-class energy facility that will help it deal with the hours of electricity outages during adverse weather.  Eastport, Maine, is the United States' easternmost city, and the island community is no stranger to losing connection to the mainland electricity supply during big storms. As reported by Inside Climate News, the island hopes to change this by becoming energy resilient — a move that has put it a…