Dear John,

Maine’s electric utilities need to be held accountable to Maine ratepayers and our climate future.

LD 1959 Report A helps carve a path to provide better service from Maine’s electric utilities, build a more resilient electric grid, and hit Maine’s ambitious climate goals detailed in the Mills Administration’s nationally-recognized Climate Action Plan: Maine Won’t Wait.

Click here to send a message to your state representatives asking them to hold utilities accountable to our communities and climate future.

The version of LD 1959 that we are supporting—Report A—has been brought forward by Senators Stacy Brenner and Eloise Vitelli. This report achieves two essential goals:

1. It establishes strict new performance metrics and a report card system for Maine’s utilities to ensure they are fulfilling their duties to provide good service at reasonable cost —and imposes mandatory financial penalties if they fail; and
2. It creates a new integrated grid planning process that will require utilities to be active participants in the transition to clean, affordable energy that powers our homes, businesses, and transportation. Grid planning is a critical part of designing the grid of the future that we need to achieve Maine’s climate goals and save Mainers millions of dollars on their electric bills.

You can help us move this bill forward by contacting your lawmakers and encouraging them to support LD 1959 Report A.

MCV worked closely with legislators, other environmental groups, and energy experts to make the original legislation better. Report A expands the performance metrics covered by the bill, strengthens accountability measures, and requires hitting Maine’s climate goals to be at the center of utilities’ planning going forward.

LD 1959 Report A is a powerful and important bill that represents our best chance to hold utilities accountable this legislative session.

Maine people deserve electric utilities that lead across a broad range of performance measures, including reliability, affordability, customer service, clean energy, grid modernization, and climate action. We believe that LD 1959 Report A will improve the quality of service for Maine people and help build the grid we need to meet climate goals at lower costs.

If you agree, tell your legislator to support LD 1959 Report A today.

Thank you,

Beth Ahearn | she/her

Director of Government Affairs

Maine Conservation Voters

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