Tux Turkel writes primarily about energy issues affecting Maine. Over the years, he has gazed into the spent-fuel pool at the now-gone Maine Yankee nuclear plant, looked across Casco Bay from atop Wyman Station’s smokestack, and toured power plants and wind farms across the state, but remains confused about why electricity doesn’t leak from our wall sockets. When he’s not trying to make sense of dense regulatory filings at the Public Utilities Commission, he’s likely to be hiking in the mountains or visiting Maine’s coastal islands in his small motorboat. A graduate of Emerson College in Boston, Tux lives in Yarmouth with his wife, youngest son, a cat and a guinea pig.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2018
Dark money and blurred alliances drum up resistance to CMP power line project
An unusual mix of opponents, one of them quite secretive, is working at a grass-roots level to block a proposed 145-mile power line through Maine, even though it’s not on any ballot.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2018
PUC delays next week’s hearings on CMP’s proposed transmission line project
The complexity, heavy interest and other issues force postponement of the sessions for at least six more weeks.
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PublishedSeptember 3, 2018
An epic voyage covers 310 miles of coastline in 13 hours
The trip, intended to highlight the Maine Island Trail, set a marine record.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2018
Newspapers praise decision nullifying Trump’s get-tough tariffs on Canadian newsprint
A trade commission finds U.S. newsprint producers were not being hurt by the imports, as the U.S. had maintained, in a decision that could lower costs for U.S. publications.
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PublishedAugust 26, 2018
Under fire from all sides, CMP losing the power of its word
The utility faces parallel investigations of its response to October’s windstorm, and a looming class-action suit. But its biggest challenge? Regaining customers’ trust.
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PublishedAugust 26, 2018
From a tiny dam in 1899 to a cog in a multinational corporation: A history of CMP
Like other energy companies, CMP would utlimately be swept up in a surge of acquisitions.
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PublishedAugust 1, 2018
Under scrutiny for storm response, CMP says it’s beefing up its smart-meter network
October’s storm highlighted weaknesses in the wireless network that critics say the utility company is downplaying.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2018
Despite subsidy, two wood-fired power plants offline for months
That’s bad for the forest products industry and jobs as Maine’s biomass power sector continues its struggle to become profitable.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2018
CMP’s parent sees need for hardier grid
But Avangrid’s $2.5 billion plan to bulk up reliability during storms comes at a time of intense scrutiny on costs to ratepayers.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2018
CMP will give $50 million to help low-income customers in Massachusetts
The Maine-based utility will provide the money over 40 years to help Bay State electricity customers save money on energy.
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