Follow-Up: Legislature launches inquiry into Maine PowerOptions program
AUGUSTA — The Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee voted unanimously Friday to launch a preliminary inquiry into Maine […]
Follow-Up: Legislative committee questions electricity program staff
AUGUSTA — For the first time in 16 years, the staff of Maine PowerOptions appeared before lawmakers […]
Value of quasi-state electricity program called into question
AUGUSTA — After a scandal at the Maine Turnpike Authority in 2011 landed its director in prison […]
State program’s cozy relationship to supplier raises concerns
GARDINER — Finance Director Denise Brown knows how to shop for a bargain. Budgets here are always tight, […]
Boston PowerOptions is a larger, more transparent version of MPO
Following deregulation, which forced municipalities, school districts and other state nonprofits to shop the open market for […]
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