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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PublishedApril 4, 2018
Maine regulators approve partial subsidy to keep biomass power plants alive
The decision is welcomed by the biomass company, Stored Solar, but detractors say they will ask the Legislature to prevent the payment.
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PublishedApril 3, 2018
Biomass owners say director of logging trade group is bad-mouthing business
Stored Solar expects to hear Wednesday whether it will get a continued subsidy for two wood-energy plants, but says false rumors hurt the company’s plans.
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PublishedApril 1, 2018
Effort to build offshore wind industry in Maine may hinge on 73 cents
Pending action at the PUC could imperil a 2014 power contract for floating turbines off Monhegan Island that would raise electric bills less than $1 a month
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PublishedMarch 28, 2018
In reversal, Massachusetts puts CMP in lead position for $950 million power line project
The Bay State abandons talks with one developer and is pursuing a deal with the Maine utility for a 145-mile line running from the Canadian border to Lewiston and into the regional grid.
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PublishedMarch 25, 2018
Unexpected foes emerge to CMP’s plan to build transmission line to Canada
Three companies with a stake in Maine’s generating capacity fear subsidized energy from Canada could upend the electric market.
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PublishedMarch 20, 2018
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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PublishedMarch 13, 2018
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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PublishedMarch 11, 2018
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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PublishedFebruary 27, 2018
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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PublishedFebruary 21, 2018
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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