Probably the obvious answer, but: LLBean has had an inclusive sizing initiative that they've been pushing for the last year or so. I'm not sure how many of their product lines this applies to, but it might be worth looking into.

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I hope they come back. Estuary DIPA is my favorite beer of all time.

The fact that they are clearing out inventory at 50% off worries me though. I dont think they would do that if they would be back in business soon. But I know nothing about the brewery business.

The news of the closing came at a bad time for me. I was planning a weekend in Portland and was going to spend an afternoon at Fore River Brewing and re-stock my beer fridge.

There's a few options here:

One, energy costs just recently went up a bunch. Everybody's getting much bigger bills than before, so it could be that, and we're just getting used to it.

Two: If this is a single month spike payment, it could be that CMP, for whatever reason, couldn't get to your meter to read it. They'll then estimate your power use for the month, and tend to estimate HIGH. You'll get a credit the following month when they get the actual reading.

Three, you could actually have an appliance that's sucking up a lot of juice. CMP does have an energy meter log that can show you how much juice you've been using per month. If that's suddenly spiked, you want to check your appliances. Electric water heaters, space heaters, and pumps (Well or sump) can all end up running constantly when something fails or is forgotten, and will gobble up juice when this happens.

Four, as I don't know Nautilus, make sure your agreement with them didn't include any extra fees or charges, particularly for the first X months of signup sort of thing.

Those would be the possibilities I can think of.

In our current home we have on-demand tankless propane. Is it the most eco-friendly? Highly debatable (most of Maine's electricity is powered by natural gas) unless you're comparing to solar. But it is awesome. Never run out of hot water, completely independent of ambient humidity and temperature.

yeah CMP costs have exploded in recent months... in all likelihood the extra power from CMP just costs a shitload more than it did before you had nautilus

Right that makes sense, BUT my combined bill is much higher than it used to be just through CMP. Maybe it's because all energy is higher now and it's just a coincidence?

he might be one of the luddites that opted out of the smart meter because radiation or something

I don't go through nautilus, but I use another community solar, and I get split bills as well. I believe I can explain:

During the winter, your Community Solar area makes considerably less energy. Not enough to fully cover all the members electric costs. (If they made enough electricity in the winter, they'd be overproducing in the summer, so it's always going to work out this way with small scale solar)

So, you get an equal or otherwise appropriate share of the energy made by your community solar, and then cover the rest through another provider. That other provider's costs show up through CMP.

On top of that, CMP charges for the delivery of power, completely separate from providing power.

You really think people in Spain are profiting from CMP? Spare us the appeals to xenophobia. An international class of investors who happen to have offices in Spain are profiting from CMP. The average Spaniard doesn’t see a penny of that.

I left Maine just in time.

Yikes. I hate that state government... But I love the state itself..the outdoors part...

Yeah they seem to have tripled their rates overnight a couple months ago. No doubt it’s to pay for all those ads they are spamming everywhere to convince us that we can’t live without them.

I think everyone is in the same boat.

Mills vs LePage wasn't about democrats or Republicans.

It was someone who is an all around let down vs someone who is a complete idiot and a raging asshole who continuously cut essential programs.

LePage also took money from donors and gave special attention to them.

We went with the letdown and anyone who voted only because of the R or the D next to their name probably never learned to breathe through their nose.

There was a thread yesterday where a whole bunch of people did 🤷

They've been doing this for decades and get approved for opposite reasons. - raise rates because we didn't generate enough and had to buy... Or raise rates because we generated too much and had to sell at a loss. Stupid.

Definitely call CMP customer service, they will walk through it with you. Just call them and explain your situation

Yes. Kennebunk residents always speak highly of KL&P. I'll be voting for PTP.

A relative's neighbor had bills like this when the house was unoccupied for a couple months. CMP won't budge.

The blue bags are for extra trash. You’re allowed two bags or two trash cans per week and if you have more than two full trash cans to throw away you need to use the blue bags. And I believe you get them from town hall. This is what I remember being told years ago, I don’t know if anything has changed since then.

I also had a mystery virus for months when I was about three years old. The doctors back then pumped me full of antibiotics, which of course don’t kill a virus. We lived in Boston at the time and I saw a new doctor. Way back then in the 60s he was telling people that antibiotics don’t kill viruses. That was kind of a new idea back then. But anyway, I was sick for months and no one has ever figured out what it was.

That’s a wise choice on their part.

I say follow the other user’s investigation suggestions but if you really can find no cause and CMP totally refuses to budge, consider involving the AGs office by filing a consumer protections complaint. I had excellent luck with them when Nordx refused to bill my insurance, ignored my messages for like 10 months and tried to send me to collections. AG put the right pressure on them.

I know more than one person who had CMP billing them for the wrong meter number and claimed to have fixed it only to not have fixed it.

Didn’t your parents teach you if you don’t have anything nice to say maybe just cram it?

I had a heat pump in my previous home, a small ranch. It was highly inefficient and expensive.