Voter Approval for Consumer Owned Utilities

What’s happening? Maine Legislature has passed LD 1708 (2021 | ME) that would put to the voters of Maine whether to create a consumer owned utility to replace the state’s investor-owned utilities

Why is this important? The policy talking points are more affordable, more reliable, cleaner and Maine-operated power

How will this be important? Maine has been experiencing long outages, high costs and point to foreign owned utilities as catalysts for the legislation.

Beacon | Bill to put proposed consumer-owned utility on ballot passes legislature