BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 21, 2023
My wife and I are new residents of Maine, having moved here a year ago from our lifelong home in Nebraska to join our family. Nebraska is the only state in the U.S. served by a publicly owned power system. We have closely followed the claims surrounding Question 3. Having heard the arguments against the proposal from its well-funded opponents, I think it is important to hear what a real customer experiences from public power. Nebraskans enjoy some of the lowest electric rates in the nation, given in part that the citizens are the shareholders. Operational profits are reinvested into grid improvements, power generation (including an ever-expanding number of green energy projects), good salaries for its employees, or passed along to the ratepayers in the form of low rates. Our experiences with public power were consistently positive. ~ Mike Mullally, Veazie