@wideeyedcurious because CMP aka Avangrid aka IBERDROLA, S.A. and their foreign governmental ownership doesn't give a fuck about the ratepayers and CMPs shitty customer service + grid uptime are not useful performance metrics to them.

On the power generation supply New England generates a lot of it's power via Natural Gas 🙃🙃🙃 so that's getting passed directly onto the ratepayers

@wideeyedcurious oh and we can't forget corporate greed (CMP had heavy profits this year 🙃🙃)
Management will need lots of bonuses on the generation and distribution sides for having a tough year of "mis-managing"

@crazyuncleharris I’m sensing that they don’t have to get approval for rate hikes from a state office…? (We have that in Minnesota.)

@wideeyedcurious oh they do, however basic public sentiment about Maine's public utility commission is that they're in CMPs pocket and they're not so much for the people 🙃🙃 they basically just rubber stamp everything

@crazyuncleharris Well that sucks. You need one like we have here in Minnesota!

@wideeyedcurious yeah instead of just these little writeups on the public broadcasting website
"oh it's a 49% increase or about 32 bucks a month, nothing major what so ever"
https://www.mainepublic.org/business-and-economy/2022-11-16/cmp-customers-will-see-rate-hikes-next-year

@crazyuncleharris Sheez! They should be representing the public interest, not the corporate interest.

@wideeyedcurious at least our public advocate does sometimes attempt to reign in the utilities.