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Maine’s public advocate decries CMP disconnect notices as ‘scare tactic’

by Penelope Overton January 18, 2020January 19, 2020

Central Maine Power says it is allowed to send the notices to customers with past-due bills, even though it can’t shut off their power in the winter without permission from the Public Utilities Commission.

Business, Local & State, News, Times Record

CMP spends $2.2 million on campaign to boost support for transmission corridor

by Edward D. Murphy January 16, 2020January 16, 2020

Central Maine Power Co. spent money in the fall on television and social media ads, political consultants, polling and opposition research, according to a campaign finance report filed Wednesday.

Op-Eds, Opinion

Maine Compass: Let voters decide on the future of CMP, Emera Maine

by Gordon L. Weil January 15, 2020January 15, 2020

A referendum is a way to act on a proposal to create a public utility while reducing the ability of investor-owned ones to kill it.

Business, Local & State

CMP customers stunned by PUC staff’s findings

by Penelope Overton January 12, 2020January 11, 2020

A report concluding that the electric utility’s systems were not at fault for extremely high bills has left many of them reeling.

Business, Local & State, News, Times Record

CMP wins key approval for route of proposed $1 billion transmission line

by Peter McGuire January 8, 2020January 8, 2020

The state’s Land Use Planning Commission voted Wednesday to certify the 145-mile corridor proposed by Central Maine Power.

Op-Eds, Opinion

Maine Compass: Public power proposal offers opportunity to match, top MEMIC’s success

by Dick Woodbury January 8, 2020January 7, 2020

Electricity distribution is the ideal industry to replicate the model of a customer-owned, privately run company.

Business, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State, Politics

Golden says he is ‘not sold’ on CMP’s controversial hydropower line

by Steve Collins December 10, 2019December 11, 2019

Maine’s 2nd District congressman says he has ‘serious concerns’ about the $1 billion plan to bring Quebec hydropower into the New England power grid via a new substation in Lewiston.