Cumberland County, Maine
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Sebago lies along the western shore of Sebago Lake, a mostly forested town of about 2,000 residents stretching from the lake west and south to Douglas Mountain, which rises to 1,416 feet on the Baldwin line. Year-round homes cluster in North Sebago and East Sebago, with more around Sebago Center, Hillside and Long Beach, and lake camps fill much of the shoreline. Goodnow Electric, a Westbrook-based contractor holding a Maine master electrician license, works on Sebago homes: panels, EV chargers, generators, wiring, lighting and emergency calls at any hour.
The American Community Survey counts about 1,520 housing units in Sebago, and roughly 590 of them, about 39 percent, are held for seasonal use. The year-round stock is older than in neighboring lake towns: the median home was built in 1975, about 17 percent predates 1940, and about 36 percent was built before 1960. Another 19 percent dates from the 1960s and 1970s. About 85 percent of homes are single-family detached houses, about 10 percent are mobile homes, and nearly 4 percent of units sit in 2-to-4 unit buildings. That mix means fuse boxes and 60 amp services in older farmhouses, ungrounded circuits in mid-century homes and camps, and seasonal cottages with services far too small for winter living, all within a few miles of each other.
Sebago leans less on oil than its neighbors Naples, Casco and Baldwin. According to the ACS, about 49 percent of occupied homes heat with fuel oil, about 21 percent with propane, about 14 percent with wood and about 15 percent with electricity. The town's 2006 comprehensive plan notes that natural gas service is not available. Homes heated by electric baseboard can often cut their load by switching to heat pumps, while oil-heated homes add load when they convert. Efficiency Maine currently offers $400 toward a qualifying off-peak Level 2 EV charger.
Electric service in Sebago comes from Central Maine Power, and the town's 2006 comprehensive plan notes that no large transmission lines pass through town. About 90 percent of Sebago is forested, so most homes sit on single-phase lines running through woods, where falling trees cause the long outages. The October 2017 windstorm, the largest weather-related outage event in Maine history, caused more than 400,000 outages with some lasting over a week. The town provides no public water or sewer and residents rely on individual wells, so a power failure stops the water supply along with the heat.
Sebago was part of Baldwin until February 10, 1826, when it was set off as its own town. Early settlers built grist and lumber mills at East Sebago and on the Northwest River, and after the Cumberland and Oxford Canal opened in 1832 the town later turned toward summer visitors, who came by rail to Sebago Lake Station in Standish and by boat to camps in East and North Sebago. Sebago Center, also called Mud City, has been the seat of town government since about 1900. Camp O-AT-KA, on the lake, dates to 1906.
Sebago issues its own electrical permits. The town's electrical permit form, filed with the Code Enforcement Officer and Building Inspector at 406 Bridgton Road in Sebago Center, covers service inspections, meter and panel upgrades, generators, garages and sheds, and records the CMP work order for service changes. It states that no wiring may be covered until it has been inspected and that inspection requests need 48 hours' notice. Shoreland permits apply within 250 feet of Sebago Lake and the town's great ponds, and installations begun on or after July 1, 2026 follow the 2026 National Electrical Code.
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