The company filed a lawsuit in Maine Superior Court challenging the constitutionality of a voter-approved measure to ban the project.
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Power line campaign is most expensive in Maine history
Mainers are wading into uncharted territory in a battle over a 145-mile electricity transmission line
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Here’s what you need to know about Question 1
CMP’s $1 billion project has been painted both as a clean-energy link and as a scar across the Maine landscape, and some ads have made it seem to be about something other than a power transmission line.
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David Flanagan, Maine business icon who led CMP, dies at 74
Flanagan, a Maine native best known for his leadership at Central Maine Power in the 1990s, also held many leadership positions in higher education and ran for governor in 2002.
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Documents reveal spending, legal strategy for embattled power line project
Avangrid Corp. has spent $350 million on the $1 billion New England Clean Energy Connect project and has developed contingency plans for its legal challenges.
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Maine’s high court backs CMP’s use of disconnection notices
Plaintiffs had argued that the utility acted unreasonably when it sent the notices as the pandemic worsened last winter.
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Energy companies keep pouring millions into battle over power line corridor
Competing energy giants from Quebec to Texas continue historic spending in a battle over a transmission corridor in western Maine that aims to bring hydropower from Canada to the New England grid.
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Maine utility regulators order preliminary probe of CMP management structure
The Public Utilities Commission has asked Central Maine Power to produce a ‘performance plan’ that outlines how the utility will maintain progress on recent improvements and address concerns raised by a recent audit.
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CMP touts customer service fixes in bid to lift state-imposed earnings penalty
Central Maine Power says it has met or exceeded state-imposed customer service benchmarks and paid a record penalty of $10 million in revenue over 18 months.
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David Flanagan: To forge clean-energy future, Maine needs hydropower, established utilities
Reducing carbon emissions will require a balance of carbon-free energy sources and more aggressive monitoring of CMP and Versant.