Letter: Pine Tree Power beats alternative

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 7, 2023

Central Maine Power employee Kurt Pullman recently wrote a column (Maine Voice, July 28) against government-owned and -run power companies. With a little digging, he would have found that Pine Tree Power will be run by an independent board of 13 elected directors. CMP’s parent company, Avangrid, is pouring millions into a misinformation campaign to defeat Pine Tree Power. Their propaganda machine has $27.4 million in cash to put out their falsehoods, while Our Power has about $800,000 in cash to counter them. CMP (and Versant Power) customers deserve much better. CMP has the most and longest outages, the worst customer service, and among the highest rates in the country. Avangrid is all about the bottom line; their profits in 2022 were $187 million. ~ Pete Hope, Pemaquid