There was a rate increase in January. Oh and CMP is going to the P.U.C. to request yet another rate hike. So their stockholders can get more profits.

Not sure if someone else posted, but in the fine print of your bill is the number for the Public Utilities Commission. In 2019 I spoke at their hearings w/CMP lawyers present. I plan to again in the very near future. Possibly contacting your town's legislative representative.

This is why we have on the fall referendum the option to vote for Pine Tree Power, which is consumer owned. Madison Electric, Kennebunk, Boothbay Harbor and other towns have their own community based company. I have friends that live in those areas and swear their bills are lower and don't have the outages like the rest of us.

I was debating between blue tarp or house wrap...

They're giving you really good advice, if you really want to figure out what the problem. Where is CMP getting those numbers from? This is how you would find out.

Our prices also doubled from November into December. Having electric heat really effed us

As a woman, I love mills. As a mainer I'm shakes angry fist

But lepage would have been shitty all around.

I live alone and am rarely home. My bill is close to $500/month now, too.

I mean. we are in Maine. Go klassy and use duct tape

The Public Utilities Commission.

Bad or old wiring? You can always rent a kilowatt from a library to check appliances to see how much they are drawing power. Could check breakers (on/off) to see what’s drawing power.

Could be a sign of a dying well pump if you have one. Or a sump pump.

That man saved my life back in the day!

Does your partner use toys by chance when you are gone?

I didn’t know this! I just signed up - thank you!

Have a sense power monitor installed. You can get one from Amazon, install it yourself if your handy. It will tell you what’s running and you should be able to see any issues.

According to the energy manager my house is spiking in usage at 4am every other day or so, when everyone in the house is fast asleep. There are spikes again throughout the day when appliances and the furnace are not running. It’s helpful to recommend the energy manager tool to people, but to us it just proved that there is an issue on CMPs end. It shows high usage at 10am when my husband is working, my baby is sleeping, and I’m folding laundry. I don’t run appliances then, the lights aren’t on and the furnace doesn’t run. We have been keeping a log and comparing it to the Energy Manager and it is completely wrong. CMP asked us to keep a log and when we showed them they said it was probably a freezer running for too long. And that our chest freezer from 2017 is “getting to be pretty old”.

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Contact your closest Hammond or Hancock and they should be able to quote the exact right size. An actual woodworker who knows how to make doors will be way more expensive, probably a couple grand per door.

Pretty much every class my kids have been a part of have between 12-16 kids and every class in the school I work at has the same numbers.

I taught in CA for 15 years before moving here. My first year, and most of the next, class had 34 fifth graders. 25 were at some sort of English Language Acquisition level, 10 had IEPs. It was hard, but we did it. I don't get how Maine isn't knocking it out of the park, I really don't. My class this year has 18 kids, no ELA students and 3 IEPs. HOW in the heck do CA kids outperform ours? OR...why are our kids not outperforming theirs by a massive amount? I don't get it...

There is a clinic in Lubec, a small hospital? In Machias, but the real hospital is in Bangor.

At CMP parties she’s a blast

Assuming you’re in good health and frugal, you’ll be able to live almost anywhere in the US on that income.

Eastport may be right for you but the only way to know for sure is to visit. The downsides are that it’s very far from the rest of Maine including proper medical facilities which a lot of older folks need.

How the hell is this accurate? In California I have never had less than 31 in my class the past 5 years. This is for elementary.

Unfortunately, so were the alternatives to Mills.

Mills was the best of shitty options. Which should be the Democratic Party's motto.

I bet Landry’s would have them