12/3/17
In windstorm’s wake, CMP feels blows of critics
A post-mortem of the extensive power outages from the October storm focuses intense scrutiny on the response by Maine's utilities.
Issues bound to be scrutinized include inaccurate information on CMP’s Web-based outage tracker, the pros and cons of installing more coated “tree wire” that’s resistant to damage and the cost of moving vulnerable overhead lines underground.......................One review will come from the Office of Public Advocate. The agency says it will hire a private consultant to look at data that CMP will soon be submitting to the PUC, containing details of what it spent to get the lights back on...........................
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/12/03/in-windstorms-wake-cmp-feels-...
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Perhaps CMP can explain why the gigantic federal taxpayer gift they got for their "Smart Meters", didn't seem to deliver reliable help on outage location. Perhaps CMP management was too busy counting their money, admiring their waterfront estates and showing off their Mercedes', all obtained with the money this world class rent seeker wrests away from us with the help of our government "representatives".
Rep. Seth Berry, D-Bowdoinham, who co-chairs the Legislature’s committee that oversees energy and utilities, submitted a bill that aims to protect residences and businesses from rising electricity costs by improving how utility companies are managed. He submitted the bill, which is up for review Nov. 30 by the 10-member Legislative Council, in early September out of concern for rate rises and poor performance by utilities, he said.
http://bangordailynews.com/2017/11/25/business/maine-officials-prep...
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Where's the Reliability Wind Pusher CMP? (BDN)
Excerpted from BDN on 11/17/17:
CMP has been criticized because it invested $1.4 billion in a Maine Power Reliability Program to modernize and enhance transmission of its 40-year-old bulk power system in 2012. That program, and its smart grid system, appear to have done little to lessen the number of outages or to accurately track where power was out and when it would be restored.
http://bangordailynews.com/2017/11/17/opinion/editorials/wind-storm...
The Maine Power Reliability Program which cost ratepayers $1.4 Billion (and counting) was sold to us on the basis of aging lines and population growth - both wholly misleading claims. Its sole purpose was rather to have ratepayers provide a 100% free gift to the Maine industry, without which the electrons from future Maine wind "farms" would be bottlenecked, blocking them from pickpocketing tax payers. The Maine media were complicit in executing the real reason for this project. These are the same Maine media who refuse to this day to let the Maine public know that in Dec 2015, John Baldacci, former governor and father of the heinous Maine expedited wind law became Vice Chair of Avangrid, CMP's parent and second largest wind company in the U.S.
For more, start by reading the following and please share via email, social media, etc. with everyone you know:
http://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/maine-electricity-rates...
Demand a special investigation into how this $1.4 Billion travesty was perpetrated on Mainers so that justice can prevail and so that this will never happen again. The coming wave of wind project applications from Mass and Ct would not have any chances of real success without the MPRP having been put in place.
Take special note of the revisionist materials now published now which attempt to show that CMP had publicized the wind power enabling aspect of the MPRP. Anyone reading the papers walked away with the idea this was all about compensating for aging lines allowed to degrade over 40 years.
Huge scam hidden in plain sight thanks to the media.
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