PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • July 21, 2020
A bill that would replace Maine’s dominant investor-owned electric utilities with a consumer-owned authority for power distribution faces a key action Friday, when the Legislature’s Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee is set to vote on whether to send the measure to the full Legislature. The Maine Power Delivery Authority would replace Central Maine Power Co. and Versant Power, formerly Emera Maine, with an entity that would operate much like Maine’s smaller, consumer-owned utilities.