The Maine Public Utilities Commission Tuesday ordered Maine’s two major electric utilities to detail their response to the October wind storm, including the number of customer outages by day and the number of outside contractors and crews they retained to help restore power.
The order resulted from a unanimous Dec. 13 vote by the PUC’s chairman and two commissioners to launch an investigation into the storm response by Central Maine Power and Emera Maine.
“The basic purpose of this regulatory system [the PUC] is to assure safe, reasonable and adequate service at rates which are just and reasonable to customers and public utilities,” the PUC wrote in its order.
The utilities must each file an initial storm report within 30 days of the order.
Their reports need to detail the daily customer outages both company wide and by circuit.
The summaries of outside contractors must include dates they were retained for the storm and the number of crews and equipment performing restoration activities for each day of the outage.
The utilities also must summarize equipment damaged by the storm.
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