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Nearly 18,000 Maine households were still without electricity on Monday afternoon after the weekend storm. But Central Maine Power and Versant Power say most customers should have their electricity back by the end of the day.
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The request comes after the regulators announced electricity supply rate hikes of 49% and 38% for customers of CMP and Versant who choose the standard offer. The new rates take effect next month.
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A proposal to dramatically change Maine's electric utility landscape has qualified for next November’s ballot, according to the Maine secretary of state’s office.
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In a ruling Tuesday morning, Maine's Supreme Judicial Court said that the state "acted within its constitutional and statutory authority" when granting CMP a lease through state-owned lands in 2020. The lease accounts for only a small part of the 145-mile-long transmission line.
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PUC Chair Phil Bartlett said the increases are driven by global natural gas prices, and will cost the average CMP customer an additional $32 per month.
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Central Maine Power and its partners plan to begin removing miles of timber mats and felled trees along the corridor of a stalled transmission line through western Maine.
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The average Central Maine Power customer could see their electricity bills increase by as much as $10 a month over the next three years, if a new grid upgrade plan from the utility gets approval from state regulators.
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The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments in which CMP seeks to throw out the result of last year's referendum, and the Board of Environmental Protection will take up CMP's appeal of a ruling.
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The pushback from the competing factions highlights how the governor's proposal attempts to split the difference between the status quo and a consumer-owned utility scheme that voters might get a chance to approve at the ballot box next year.
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Solar power developers stampeded into Maine last year, spurred by new incentives. But the actual buildout was hampered by CMP's slow and sometimes inaccurate provision of planning studies needed to safely interconnect new projects to its system.