BANGOR DAILY NEWS • July 5, 2023
AARP Maine is urging everyone who relies on Central Maine Power or Versant Power for their electricity to contact their state senators and ask them to pass LD 1347 and reform the state’s net energy billing program. Net energy billing provides overly generous subsidies to solar developers that we believe are not needed to aid the transition to renewable energy. The program will cost Mainers roughly $220 million annually and will continue for 20 years. AARP strongly supports the transition to renewable energy, but this transition cannot be funded by asking the most vulnerable Mainers, particularly older adults who live on low and fixed incomes, to foot the bill. ~ Alf Anderson, AARP