PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • October 12, 2023
We have before us this November a golden opportunity to clear a path to a modernized grid that’s reliable, built to handle the clean energy transition, and affordable to all Mainers. Voting “yes” on Question 3 removes the two biggest obstacles now blocking this path to climate crisis solutions, namely the investor-owned corporate utilities Central Maine Power and Versant, and replacing them with a nonprofit, publicly owned Pine Tree Power company. What do CMP and Versant have against renewable energy? It’s more profitable for them to build transmission lines carrying power from distant generation sources than to facilitate local microgrids, especially ones where clean power, like solar and wind, is generated and stored close to where the power is used. ~ Amy Eshoo, Maine Climate Action Now