Power choice to the people

To the editor,

In May 2019, Kennebunk’s Rep. Diane Denk introduced a bill into the Maine House that could have freed Kennebunk residents from the greedy clutches of Central Maine Power, allowing those customers to instead get their electricity from our local Kennebunk Light and Power District.

The effort failed when the Legislature decided that CMP was doing a good enough job, and would only be forced to sell its Kennebunk customers if it provided sub-par service.

In November 2022, a survey by J.D. Power gave CMP the lowest customer satisfaction score of all utilities around the country: a dismal 597 points on a 1,000-point scale. It seems to me that this survey, and the equally damning ones done in previous years, would be enough to let CMP’s Kennebunk customers finally break away. Yet there seems to be no effort on anyone’s part to do this.

Perhaps the only hope for myself and my neighbors, who suffered through several multi-day outages during this mild winter, is for the proposed customer-owned Pine Tree Power to replace CMP. If you agree, please join me in voting yes to create it this November.

Janet Brennan

Kennebunk