Opinion: Change of ownership needed to improve Maine’s power system

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 3, 2021

It should come as no surprise that Joshua Broder penned a May 25 column in the BDN in opposition to LD 1708, An Act to Create the Pine Tree Power Company. Broder is a newly minted board member of Versant Power and CEO of Tilson — a company that received millions of dollars in revenues starting in 2012 as a prime contractor to CMP for the roll out of its “smart” meter program. Tilson’s business benefited from a ratepayer-funded technology rollout assisted by Obama era tax dollars. ~ Sam May, served on Maine’s Economic Recovery Committee and is co-founder and board chair of Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union