emera maine
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PublishedDecember 7, 2018
CMP-area customers to learn 2019 electricity price Monday
The standard offer is the price set by the supplier for about 80 percent of customers.
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PublishedDecember 4, 2018
Default electricity rates in northern, eastern Maine to spike nearly 16%
Regulators approved a new standard offer that increases the residential rate from 7.22 cents per kilowatt-hour to 8.37 cents for people who don't choose their own power supplier.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2018
Only four customers still without power in Maine after weekend windstorm
CMP had no outages as of late Monday night, while Emera Maine reported four on Deer Isle, two days after the storm left about 80,000 homes and businesses in the dark statewide.
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PublishedOctober 16, 2018
CMP restores power to most of the 95,000 customers who lost it
By Tuesday night, just under 7,400 customers were still without electricity after lines were damaged by high winds that swept through Maine overnight, toppling trees and breaking limbs.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2018
Regulators find CMP, Emera responded ‘reasonably’ to intense October windstorm
The PUC rules the utilities took proper actions based on the weather forecasts, but need to improve how they keep customers informed about outages and efforts to restore power.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2018
Maine Voices: Now is the time for a public electric utility in Maine
Such an entity would deal with the crisis of confidence in the major electric utilities and achieve lower rates.
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PublishedJune 19, 2018
Emera Maine gets a rate increase
AARP Maine says the increase, even though it's less than proposed, is still too much.
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PublishedDecember 4, 2016
Maine Voices: Monhegan Island is the wrong place for wind turbines
We face a David vs. Goliath fight over the wind turbine project, but our island is worth fighting for.
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PublishedNovember 29, 2016
Maine’s electric rates fall again, but not monthly bills
Higher infrastructure costs will offset the lower supply prices, but Maine has avoided the 20 percent increase seen in other New England states.
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PublishedNovember 17, 2016
Maine’s highest court again strikes down proposed Emera deal
For a second time, justices order the panel to deny the utility's bid to buy a bigger share in a power generator, saying it violates the state law that separates energy generation and distribution.