As the electric utility generates hundreds of flawed bills daily, customers ask: ‘What the heck is wrong with this company?’
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CMP sweetens its offer for approval of transmission corridor, to $258 million
In confidential documents, the power company and its partners offer incentives over 40 years if regulators approve the 145-mile project through western Maine.
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Regulators threaten CMP with sanctions for failing to fix customer service problems
In a scathing letter, the Public Utilities Commission said the power company has not met performance standards laid out last year.
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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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Large Maine solar producers win exemption from costly meter installations
Regulators saw little benefit to ratepayers from a requirement that companies with large solar arrays pay to have expensive meters installed.
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PUC expected to issue determination
WEST PARIS — The Maine Public Utilities Commission is expected to take up deliberations this morning, Thursday, Aug. 16, on whether to accept, reject or amend the July 25 Recommended Decision of the nearly eight-month-long investigation into allegations against West Paris Water District Trustees. The deliberations will take place at the Commission’s headquarters at 101 Second […]
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Maine regulators vote to open full investigation of CMP bills
Unable after a three-week, preliminary inquiry to explain why more than 1,000 Central Maine Power customers have received inexplicably high electric bills this winter, the Maine Public Utilities Commission voted Tuesday to launch a full investigation. The broader probe will be conducted in tandem with the ongoing inquiry underway by the PUC’s staff, which has been requesting […]
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PUC to rule on New Sharon water rate increase
NEW SHARON — After customers of the New Sharon Water District twice filed petitions opposing a rate increase, the Maine Public Utilities Commission will decide whether to approve it. “We don’t know where it stands,” Mercy Hanson, treasurer for the district, said Thursday. “We’re in limbo. We’ll have to wait and see.” It could take […]
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Maine opponents of smart meters take case to court of last resort
PORTLAND — A citizens group is appealing a decision by the Maine Public Utilities Commission on “smart meters” to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. The Maine Coalition to Stop Smart Meters believes the PUC’s decision does not do enough to protect the public’s health and safety. It wants the high court to roll back installation […]
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LePage, utilities commissioner at odds over ethics in Nestle case
AUGUSTA — Three people in the state have the power to decide how much Mainers pay every month for water, natural gas, telephone and electricity. They’re the members of the Maine Public Utilities Commission, and they preside over decorous, court-like proceedings in which they set rates and regulate about 430 telephone, electric, gas and water […]