Three companies with a stake in Maine’s generating capacity fear subsidized energy from Canada could upend the electric market.
Tux Turkel
Tux Turkel writes primarily about energy issues affecting Maine. Over the years, he has gazed into the spent-fuel pool at the now-gone Maine Yankee nuclear plant, looked across Casco Bay from atop Wyman Station’s smokestack, and toured power plants and wind farms across the state, but remains confused about why electricity doesn’t leak from our wall sockets.
When he’s not trying to make sense of dense regulatory filings at the Public Utilities Commission, he’s likely to be hiking in the mountains or visiting Maine’s coastal islands in his small motorboat.
A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Tux lives in Yarmouth with his wife, youngest son, a cat and a guinea pig.
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Maine regulators will investigate shocking increase in some CMP customers’ bills
The Public Utilities Commission wants to take a deeper look at factors that could reveal why more than 1,000 customers of Central Maine Power Co. received inexplicably high bills this winter.
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Prospects improve for CMP’s $950 million power line plan
New Hampshire regulators’ delay in making a final decision will likely doom the rival to CMP’s New England Clean Energy Connect.
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Exorbitant power bills aren’t just a Maine thing
The Telegram discovers similar complaints across 22 states. An inquiry is underway, but finding answers has now gotten thornier.
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Maine regulators will examine why some CMP bills have soared
The Public Utilities Commission staff will look into factors that led to electricity charges that quadrupled in some cases over the past few months.
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Advocates for home solar projects slam decision by ‘out-of-control’ PUC
Pressured by Gov. LePage, the commission decides new rules reducing compensation for rooftop-generated power will take effect March 16, six weeks earlier than the deadline it set two months ago.
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University official improperly advised bidders on energy contract, entrepreneur says
The statement, combined with a new recording of stakeholder phone calls, raises further questions about the process used in awarding negotiating rights for a multimillion-dollar energy contract.
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Secret recordings prompt calls to investigate fairness of bidding for UMaine energy contract
The university system is likely to examine revelations in a Press Herald report that suggest a university official improperly influenced the competition for a deal potentially worth more than $100 million.
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Secret recordings point to improper influence by top UMaine official in lucrative power contract
A university official was said to be coaching ConEdison, the winning bidder for a multimillion-dollar energy deal involving the Orono campus and an abandoned Old Town paper mill.
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Shuttered Old Town mill sold, to be redeveloped for forest-products tenants
The former pulp mill has been the site of a string of failures, but its assets and potential continue to attract entrepreneurs.