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PublishedMarch 25, 2025
Starting in April, utilities can cut off power to Mainers with unpaid bills
State law prohibits Central Maine Power Co. and Versant Power from pulling the plug on delinquent customers from Nov. 15 to April 15. Consumer advocates and utilities are urging people to reach out.
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PublishedMarch 19, 2025
Maine’s public advocate seeks access to billing data from electricity suppliers
The move is meant to help determine how much competitive electricity providers overcharge low-income customers.
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2025
CMP seeks $228 million for 2024 storm repair costs
The utility says it responded to 25 storms in 2024, including a March ice storm and April nor’easter that affected the large majority of its 650,000 customers.
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2025
GOP push to end Maine solar subsidies, but lawmaker says it’s unlikely
How much to pay solar power developers has been an issue in Augusta for years and has emerged again as costs soar for some businesses.
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PublishedFebruary 20, 2025
Maine regulators rap Versant for delaying audit over electricity rates
The cost of reviewing the utility's operations, to be paid by ratepayers, has soared to $554,025, over than $140,000 more than the original contract price.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2025
Regulators seek approval to cut bills for Mainers who use electricity during off-peak hours
It would take years to establish the new rates, Maine's top utility regulator told the Legislature's Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2025
Maine approves rules to restrict utilities’ lobbying, prevent costs from being passed to customers
The new regulations are based on a 2023 law requiring greater transparency by utilities, spurred by multimillion-dollar campaigns both in favor of and against a power line project that was on voters' ballots.
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PublishedFebruary 1, 2025
CMP spent $24.5 million on storm cleanups in Maine in 2024
The impact on rates from the storms — which knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers in October, November and December — is not yet known.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2024
Spanish energy giant purchases CMP parent company for $2.5B
Maine regulators allowed Iberdrola's acquisition of Avangrid to advance without state review, brushing aside objections from the state public advocate and environmentalists.
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PublishedNovember 26, 2024
Maine regulators back plan to preserve the 207 area code ‘perhaps indefinitely’
'We can potentially extend the 207 area code well into the future, perhaps indefinitely,' PUC Chair Philip Bartlett said.
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