The company will meet Tuesday with stakeholders about securing more benefits for the state of Maine in exchange for a 145-mile transmission line from Quebec to Massachusetts.
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Critics call for replacing CMP, Emera Maine with a ‘consumer-owned utility’
The bill, which will be considered by the Legislature, would use low-interest revenue bonds to buy the transmission and distribution assets of Maine’s two largest for-profit utilities.
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Regulators consider extending window for CMP bill disputes
The Public Utilities Commission also is coming under fire for its handling of some complaints.
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Maine regulators decide to open full investigation of CMP billing problems
The Public Utilities Commission’s legal process includes power to compel witnesses to testify, participation by stakeholders, technical conferences and public hearings.
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Customer advocates reject CMP audit findings
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 […]
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Audit shows CMP billing and metering systems didn’t cause skyrocketing bills
However, Liberty Consulting Group concludes in the report to regulators that the company made the situation worse with a poor response to the thousands of complaints.
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Maine PUC may make shareholders absorb cost of CMP billing delays
Maine’s utility regulators won’t allow Central Maine Power Co. to shift the cost for unbilled electricity to ratepayers if the company didn’t act prudently, a top Public Utilities Commission official said Monday. The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram reported that about 3,400 new CMP customers did not get bills for months because the company was […]
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Regulators consider controversial CMP billing practice in next year’s rates
Maine’s utility regulators won’t allow Central Maine Power Co. to shift the cost for unbilled electricity to ratepayers if the company didn’t act prudently, a top Public Utilities Commission official said Monday. The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram reported that about 3,400 new CMP customers did not get bills for months because the company was […]
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Maine DEP tells CMP its application for 145-mile power line is incomplete
Central Maine Power Co.’s plan to build a $1 billion, 145-mile transmission line through western Maine is facing another potential delay after the Maine Department of Environmental Protection notified the company this week that its application to build the project is incomplete. The DEP said it cannot move forward with evaluating CMP’s New England Clean […]
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Wilton filing petition in CMP transmission line
WILTON — The Board of Selectpersons voted 3-0-1 Tuesday to late-file a petition with the Public Utilities Commission to intervene in Central Maine Power Co.’s New England Clean Energy Connect project. The deadline for intervention filing was October 13, 2017, according to information in the PUC project docket. Chairperson Tiffany Maiuri, David Leavitt and Keith […]