Central Maine Power and Emera Maine are reporting several thousand customers without power Wednesday after high winds swept across Maine overnight. Just over 3,100 CMP customers scattered across the company’s coverage area were without power at 8:15 a.m. The highest concentration is in York County, where about 1,400 customers in Hollis, Limington and Waterboro are […]
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Power outage hits Androscoggin and Oxford counties
LEWISTON — A piece of broken equipment at the Hotel Road substation along a transmission line knocked out power to 16,000 Central Maine Power customers for about a half hour Monday morning. Spokeswoman Gail Rice said she hoped power would be restored by 10 a.m. but it came on in Lewiston about 9:45 a.m. Roughly […]
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High winds create outages for more than 5,000 customers
LEWISTON — Central Maine Power reported over 5,000 outages Sunday, with over 2,000 in York County and more than 1,500 in Oxford County at it’s highest, most due to weather-related damage. Outages were down to 1,900 customers at 8 p.m. The National Weather Service forecasted wind speeds of 10 to 20 mph with possible gusts […]
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CMP CEO Sara Burns to retire
After nearly 20 years at the helm of Central Maine Power Co., Sara Burns has announced her retirement. Burns, who joined the energy company in 1987, became president in 1998 and CEO in 2005. She intends to retire at the end of this year. “We thank Sara for her strong leadership of CMP,” said Bob […]
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Maine lawmakers to weigh in on reducing power outages
PORTLAND (AP) — The Maine Legislature plans to consider aggressive tree cutting, underground power lines and other measures in response to a storm that left some homes and businesses in the dark for up to 10 days. The Joint Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology will listen to ideas for reducing the number and duration […]
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CMP seeks support to build transmission line
WILTON — Selectpersons were asked Tuesday to consider signing a letter of support for Central Maine Power’s proposed bids to develop a transmission line from Quebec to Lewiston. The line would have a small footprint, John Carroll of CMP said, nipping a piece of property off Route 156. Towns along a planned CMP corridor, […]
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Cost of CMP’s storm recovery likely to be reflected in ratepayers’ bills next summer
A utility pole with a transformer still attached lies in the middle of Flying Point Road in Freeport last Friday, under wires weighted down by trees that block the road. (Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald) With nearly 2,000 linemen and tree workers laboring around the clock to restore power to half a million Maine customers over […]
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CMP expects to restore power to most customers by Saturday night
Sara Burns: We expect to complete restoration to the vast majority of customers by Saturday night. — Central Maine Power (@cmpco) October 31, 2017 Work to restore electricity to more than 400,000 Maine homes and businesses continues a day after a powerful storm knocked out power to a record number of people across the state. […]
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Bethel developer hopes to jolt Central Maine Power
BETHEL — Rick Savage doesn’t like getting pushed around. The co-owner of Sunday River Brewing Co. and developer of scores of new houses got angry when he discovered the power company might have shortchanged him. Two years ago, he filed a complaint with the Public Utilities Commission questioning Central Maine Power’s refusal to reimburse him […]
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Maynetta L. French
LEWISTON — Maynetta L. (Mace) French, 98, passed away peacefully on Monday, July 31, at Central Maine Medical Center. She was born in Augusta on February 21, 1919, the daughter of the late Carl and Lona (Skillins) Mace. Maynetta grew up in East Winthrop, and graduated from Winthrop High School in 1937. She went to […]