PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 11, 2021
Under fire for angering the state’s solar energy industry, Central Maine Power Co. blamed the situation on a failure to run its engineers’ cost estimates up the corporate chain. David Flanagan, the company’s executive chairman, told state lawmakers Thursday that multimillion-dollar cost estimates for needed grid upgrades were issued to solar developers by midlevel engineers who didn’t run their numbers past senior engineers or company managers. He said the costs have been adjusted downward.