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PublishedMay 14, 2020
Recently sold Emera Maine rebrands itself as Versant Power
The electric utility, which serves northern and eastern Maine, was purchased in March by Enmax Corp., a western Canadian utility.
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PublishedMay 9, 2020
Spring storm leaves nearly 11,000 without power in Maine
Electric utility crews are scrambling to make repairs between periods of high winds.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2020
State regulators approve sale of Emera Maine
The Maine Public Utilities Commission OK selling the dominant electric utility in eastern and northern Maine to a Canadian company.
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PublishedMarch 5, 2020
Regulators shoot down plan by Canadian company to buy Emera Maine
A Maine regulatory commission has rejected a proposal from a Canadian company to buy one of the most important utilities in the state
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2020
Bill to create consumer-owned electric utility meets Republican resistance
Republicans on the Legislature's energy committee show no support for the Democratic bill to create a consumer-owned power authority to buy the assets of Maine's two private electric utility companies.
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PublishedMarch 25, 2019
Canadian company buying Emera Maine for $959 million
The sale remains subject to regulatory approvals at the state and federal levels.
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PublishedJanuary 28, 2019
Critics call for replacing CMP, Emera Maine with a ‘consumer-owned utility’
The bill, which will be considered by the Legislature, would use low-interest revenue bonds to buy the transmission and distribution assets of Maine's two largest for-profit utilities.
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PublishedDecember 7, 2018
CMP-area customers to learn 2019 electricity price Monday
The standard offer is the price set by the supplier for about 80 percent of customers.
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PublishedDecember 4, 2018
Default electricity rates in northern, eastern Maine to spike nearly 16%
Regulators approved a new standard offer that increases the residential rate from 7.22 cents per kilowatt-hour to 8.37 cents for people who don't choose their own power supplier.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2018
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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