The utility failed to charge about 3,400 new customers for months, citing lack of staff and inability to keep up with new accounts.
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CMP neglected to charge 3,400 new accounts for months. The rest of its customers may get the bill.
The company blamed the billing snafu on a rash of retirements which left it shorthanded.
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Portland’s plan to track energy usage stalls over privacy concerns
CMP says regulators must change the rules for it to let large property owners access their tenants’ electricity data, but is ‘thrilled’ with the city’s plan. Others say the company isn’t acting like it.
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CMP warned of ‘working off the same playbook’ that stymied New Hampshire energy project
The kind of public resistance that sank the Northern Pass effort now has CMP reworking its transmission line blueprint.
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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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Market forces buffeting future of wind power in Maine
Despite aggressive policy goals, the industry’s at a crossroads as transmission capacity expenses undercut its potential.
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Windstorm knocks out power to more than 67,000 across Maine
Central Maine Power reported 34,593 customers without electricity Saturday night, while 33,002 Emera Maine customers were in the dark.
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Regulators say they won’t decide on CMP’s $1 billion power line until March
The Maine Public Utilities Commission extends the process for deciding whether to award a permit needed for the 145-mile transmission project to move forward.
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Longtime Central Maine Power spokeswoman says she’s retiring
Gail Rice started working for Maine’s largest utility in 1996.
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Over 3,000 CMP customers, mostly in Freeport, lose electricity
The outage comes one year to the day after a powerful windstorm knocked out power to hundreds of thousands in Maine.