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monsterscallinghome t1_j1e1z5h wrote

Reply to comment by Faendol in Gotta love Kennebunk Light & Power. I submitted an online report. Truck arrived in 20 minutes. Power back on within an hour by Guygan

I'm not sure I understand your question.

KLP is a consumer-owned utility, so they have no profit motive and the consumers can vote out the board of directors if they do a shite job. And the BoD are mostly local residents, who don't want their power to be unreliable and expensive, so they have a whole lot more incentive to not suck at their jobs than a bunch of Spanish millionaires basking in the Azores (on the yachts we bought them with our absurdly high bills) while we all shiver in the dark.

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Faendol t1_j1eowq7 wrote

That's even better than I thought, admittedly I wasn't directly familiar with KLP I assumed it was a local privately owned utility. That's awesome I'd love to see that at a state level.

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monsterscallinghome t1_j1f3vdd wrote

Well, it's on the ballot next November so don't forget to vote! It's an off-year election so turnout will likely be extremely low and just a few votes could be the difference of $0.20/kwh on all of our bills.

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