PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 0, 2025
My wife and I are members of a small solar array, which we own with eight other families. During a 14-month period, we sent 705 kilowatt hours of “unused expired credits” from our array through CMP’s wires. That electricity was then sold by Avangrid. Poor Avangrid! It wants to eliminate net energy billing but is quite happy to receive the one and a half months-plus worth of free electricity we sent it so that it can sell it on the open market and further increase the millions of dollars in profit it makes each year and pay millions of dollars in dividends to its shareholders. ~ Richard Estabrook, Brunswick