York County, Maine
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Kennebunkport stretches from Dock Square and the mouth of the Kennebunk River past Cape Arundel and the Cape Porpoise fishing harbor to Goose Rocks Beach. Its roughly 3,700 residents share the town with summer households, and nearly nine in ten homes are single-family houses. Low roads along Ocean Avenue, Dyke Road and King's Highway flood at storm tides, which shapes how panels, generators and outdoor equipment should be placed. Goodnow Electric, a licensed Maine master electrician based in Westbrook, works on homes throughout the town.
About 29 percent of Kennebunkport's homes were built before 1960 and 13 percent before 1940, according to the Census, with a median year built of 1982. The oldest stock sits in the village around Dock Square, where the Kennebunkport Historic District holds houses from the late 1700s and early 1800s, and along Cape Arundel, where shingle-style summer cottages went up in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Those houses often carry layers of wiring from different decades, from knob-and-tube in attics to undersized services added for a single kitchen. About 25 percent of homes date from 2000 or later, many of them large houses with big electrical loads. Single-family detached homes make up about 90 percent of the stock, and about 30 percent of all housing units are held for seasonal use.
Fuel oil heats about half of the town's occupied homes, propane about 27 percent and electricity about 20 percent, according to Census estimates. No utility gas shows up in the figures, so propane is the usual fuel for a standby generator. Electric heat can mean older baseboard systems or newer heat pumps, and either one adds up fast in a large home. Seasonal houses add another angle: a place left empty for the winter depends on heat, a sump pump and sometimes a monitored alarm to stay safe while nobody is there.
Central Maine Power serves Kennebunkport. The January 2024 storms showed the risk on the coast: during the January 13 flooding, with Portland's tide at a record 14.57 feet, CMP shut off power to buildings in Dock Square because of water, electrical and fire hazards. The town counted about $850,000 in public infrastructure damage from the two storms, with King's Highway among the worst-hit neighborhoods and flooding reported at Langsford Road, New Biddeford Road and Cape Porpoise Square. Inland roads toward Arundel and Biddeford are wooded, and falling limbs cause outages there, so backup power makes sense in both settings.
Kennebunkport was first incorporated in 1653 as Cape Porpus and took its current name in 1821 during its shipbuilding years. The Kennebunkport Historic District, listed on the National Register in 1976, covers most of the village center. The Cape Arundel Summer Colony Historic District, listed in 1984, runs from Chick's Creek to Walker's Point and includes the Kennebunk River Club. Cape Porpoise remains a working fishing harbor, and the Seashore Trolley Museum, the world's first and largest museum of mass transit vehicles, keeps ten Maine trolley cars that are themselves on the National Register.
The Town of Kennebunkport does not currently issue electrical permits, though it requires that electrical work be done by an electrician licensed in Maine. It does require a town permit to install a generator. That leaves electrical permitting with the State of Maine Electricians' Examining Board, which takes permits online and sends state inspectors. The town's Planning and Code office handles flood hazard development permits and shoreland zoning, which reaches 250 feet from the high-water line of the ocean and rivers. Since July 1, 2026, new installations statewide follow the 2026 National Electrical Code.
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