Mainers set to vote on consumer-owned utility and CMP’s effort to kill it

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 27, 2023

The tit-for-tat battle between Maine’s biggest electric company and its leading critics escalated on Thursday, when an effort that would blunt a proposed consumer-owned utility qualified for the November 2023 ballot. It means Maine voters will decide whether to replace Central Maine Power Co. and Versant Power with a consumer-owned utility at the same time as they consider a CMP-backed question that would subject the billions in borrowing needed to fund the new entity to yet another vote.