FARMINGTON – Is Green power an energy solution or an energy problem, or both? The complexities of energy generation and energy choices will be explored by Erika Morgan, executive director of Maine Energy Investment Corp., at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, in Conference Room 123 of Olsen Student Center at the University of Maine at Farmington. The program, offered by the Audubon Society, is free and open to the public.

Morgan is working on her first Maine project, the Maine Green Power Connection, which seeks to connect alternative energy sources to consumers in Maine.

Hydropower, solar power and wind power are generally considered clean alternatives to the coal- and oil-fired power plants that contribute to air pollution and that dump mercury into waterways. But some have raised concerns that these power sources offer false hopes because they only shift detrimental environmental effects from one sector of the natural world to another.