Tux Turkel

Staff Writer

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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PUC reviewing Central Maine Power’s bad-debt write-offs

by Tux Turkel

Has Central Maine Power Co. done a reasonable job pursuing customers who don’t pay their bills on time and minimizing bad-debt write-offs? Those issues are at the heart of a two-year old investigation at the Maine Public Utilities Commission. The review was triggered by mounting sums that CMP has been unable to collect from non-paying […]

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