The electric utility, which serves northern and eastern Maine, was purchased in March by Enmax Corp., a western Canadian utility.
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Spring storm leaves nearly 11,000 without power in Maine
Electric utility crews are scrambling to make repairs between periods of high winds.
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State regulators approve sale of Emera Maine
The Maine Public Utilities Commission OK selling the dominant electric utility in eastern and northern Maine to a Canadian company.
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Bill to create consumer-owned electric utility meets Republican resistance
Republicans on the Legislature’s energy committee show no support for the Democratic bill to create a consumer-owned power authority to buy the assets of Maine’s two private electric utility companies.
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Canadian company buying Emera Maine for $959 million
The sale remains subject to regulatory approvals at the state and federal levels.
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Critics call for replacing CMP, Emera Maine with a ‘consumer-owned utility’
The bill, which will be considered by the Legislature, would use low-interest revenue bonds to buy the transmission and distribution assets of Maine’s two largest for-profit utilities.
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Maine utility crews headed south to help restore power
BANGOR — Utility crews in Maine are heading south to assist with power outages caused by a massive snowstorm pummeling the mid-Atlantic region. Emera Maine says it packed up a dozen of its bucket trucks Friday morning and sent off line workers, supervisors and a mechanic to assist crews from utility company Delmarva Power. Delmarva […]
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Power outage hits thousands of Emera Maine customers
MILO — Thousands of customers are without power in northern Penobscot and Piscataquis counties as utility crews investigate an outage. An Emera Maine spokeswoman says crews are in the Milo area determining what caused the outage, which began at about 7 a.m. Thursday. The utility anticipated power will be restored by late morning on Thursday. […]
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Emera has 1,400 customers without power still in northern Maine
MACHIAS — More than 1,400 Emera Maine customers are without electricity in northern Maine as the utility continues to repair its systems after weekend storms. Emera Maine said Tuesday that 1,389 of the outages are in Washington County. The rest are in Aroostook and Hancock counties. A spokesman for the utility says progress has been […]
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More than 2,900 Mainers still without power
MACHIAS — Emera Maine was busy Monday trying to restore power to a few thousand customers Down East, but the progress was slow because damage from tropical storm Arthur over the holiday weekend was more extensive than first thought. As the day drew to a close, Monday’s efforts restored power to about 650 customers, leaving […]