Commentary: Rural Maine cooperative holds up well when compared to CMP

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • July 1, 2021

I’d like to address inaccuracies in a commentary by three former Maine Public Utilities Commission members (“Don’t put politicians in charge of our electric grid”), published in the Press Herald’s online edition June 14. Eastern Maine Electric and CMP have significant differences that make any apples-to-apples comparison faulty and misleading. The commentary fails to acknowledge that Eastern Maine Electric’s rates are very close to CMP’s, though the investor-owned utility’s territory is much cheaper to serve. ~ Scott M. Hallowell, Eastern Maine Electric Cooperative