PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 23, 2023
It is the senior management of the utility that determines how well it is run. In over 50 years of working in the industry, including work in more than 25 countries, I have consulted with investor-owned, consumer-owned, federally owned and state- and provincially owned utilities and have seen well-run and not-so-well-run utilities of all ownership types. What we have in Maine are two poorly run investor-owned utilities, probably poorly run because their ultimate management comes from outside the United States. Let’s see if we can have a better-run utility with local senior management and local decision making that does not emphasize profits over performance. Let’s pass the Pine Tree Power referendum in November. ~ Bill Dunn, Yarmouth