Happy New Year. Now get out there and shovel. A blizzard roared through Maine on Thursday, dumping more than a foot of snow that was then blown into great heaps by winds gusting to 50 mph. The storm began Thursday morning, dropping 13 inches on Lewiston throughout the day. By 8 p.m., 15 inches had […]
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CMP customers warned of power bill scam
Portland-area law enforcement officials are warning of a telephone scam threatening Central Maine Power customers with power disconnection unless they pay bills with prepaid cards. Residential electricity customers are protected from immediate disconnection during the winter, and power companies never demand payment with prepaid cards, CMP spokeswoman Gail Rice said. “This is not new; scammers […]
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Maine PUC opens inquiry into storm response by CMP, Emera
The Maine Public Utilities Commission voted Tuesday to open an inquiry into responses by the state’s electric companies in restoring power after last October’s destructive storm. It asked Central Maine Power and Emera Maine to file a report detailing their responses and lessons learned in 30 days. It also said it wanted to know how […]
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About 4,500 CMP, Emera customers without power
Central Maine Power and Emera Maine are reporting several thousand customers without power Wednesday after high winds swept across Maine overnight. Just over 3,100 CMP customers scattered across the company’s coverage area were without power at 8:15 a.m. The highest concentration is in York County, where about 1,400 customers in Hollis, Limington and Waterboro are […]
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Power outage hits Androscoggin and Oxford counties
LEWISTON — A piece of broken equipment at the Hotel Road substation along a transmission line knocked out power to 16,000 Central Maine Power customers for about a half hour Monday morning. Spokeswoman Gail Rice said she hoped power would be restored by 10 a.m. but it came on in Lewiston about 9:45 a.m. Roughly […]
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High winds create outages for more than 5,000 customers
LEWISTON — Central Maine Power reported over 5,000 outages Sunday, with over 2,000 in York County and more than 1,500 in Oxford County at it’s highest, most due to weather-related damage. Outages were down to 1,900 customers at 8 p.m. The National Weather Service forecasted wind speeds of 10 to 20 mph with possible gusts […]
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CMP CEO Sara Burns to retire
After nearly 20 years at the helm of Central Maine Power Co., Sara Burns has announced her retirement. Burns, who joined the energy company in 1987, became president in 1998 and CEO in 2005. She intends to retire at the end of this year. “We thank Sara for her strong leadership of CMP,” said Bob […]
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Maine lawmakers to weigh in on reducing power outages
PORTLAND (AP) — The Maine Legislature plans to consider aggressive tree cutting, underground power lines and other measures in response to a storm that left some homes and businesses in the dark for up to 10 days. The Joint Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology will listen to ideas for reducing the number and duration […]
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CMP seeks support to build transmission line
WILTON — Selectpersons were asked Tuesday to consider signing a letter of support for Central Maine Power’s proposed bids to develop a transmission line from Quebec to Lewiston. The line would have a small footprint, John Carroll of CMP said, nipping a piece of property off Route 156. Towns along a planned CMP corridor, […]
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Cost of CMP’s storm recovery likely to be reflected in ratepayers’ bills next summer
A utility pole with a transformer still attached lies in the middle of Flying Point Road in Freeport last Friday, under wires weighted down by trees that block the road. (Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald) With nearly 2,000 linemen and tree workers laboring around the clock to restore power to half a million Maine customers over […]