SUN JOURNAL • January 16, 2022
The Central Maine Power Company has lost its way. CMP’s unreliability and poor response to its all too frequent outages, its hopeless billing system, its terrible customer service, and its plodding approach to solar deployment are all enormously frustrating. Whether they constitute sufficient cause for unwinding the company's exclusive franchise may be debatable. However, its totally predictable and insufficient response to the challenge of beneficial electrification constitutes far more than adequate cause to replace its monopoly. It’s a necessity. ~ Mark Isaacson, founding partner of Competitive Energy Services, Kennebec Valley Gas Company, GridSolar, and Beaver Ridge Wind