An eight-month independent audit of Central Maine Power’s billing and metering systems offered hope that ongoing anger and confusion about high electric bills for tens of thousands of customers finally would be cleared up. That didn’t happen. The Maine Public Utilities Commission released a long-awaited report just before Christmas that concluded last winter’s cold spell was largely […]
Tux Turkel
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Electricity supply rates to rise about 14 percent
Most home and small-business electric customers in southern and central Maine will see the cost of their power supply go up roughly 14 percent on Jan. 1, after the Maine Public Utilities Commission on Monday approved a new standard offer rates for 2019. Rates will rise from 7.9 cents per kilowatt hour to 9 cents. […]
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