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Wyman Station is a Problem Maine Must Solve | Opinion

By Eben Perkins, Chief Strategy Officer Maine doesn’t have a plan to replace the aging facility’s on-demand power once it retires. It’s time to get to work. And our next governor needs to be ready. With its 421-foot stack, Wyman Station towers over Casco Bay from the tip of Cousins Island in Yarmouth. Wyman’s shadow similarly […]

CMP Rate Plans: Recent Developments and Outlook

  By Emmett Burns, Associate Manager While many recent conversations in the energy space have centered around the closing of the Strait of Hormuz and the subsequent impact on global commodity prices, there are other recent developments impacting our energy costs on a more local level. Here in Maine, Central Maine Power (CMP) has been busy in recent […]

Summer 2026: Why Capacity Tag Management Matters

By Dan Long, Client Development Coordinator Here’s a simple fact about New England electricity: Just one hour in the summer defines how you are billed for demand for 12 months. That hourly summer peak sets your capacity tag for the following power year as a representation of your contribution to overall grid stress on that […]

Inside the Perfect Storm Driving Today’s High Energy Costs

By Joshua Barber, Managing Director of Pricing  “Perfect Storm” Driving High Energy Costs In the last few years, we have seen energy prices not only rise in priority within the energy space, but breakthrough into the class of “kitchen table” issues that lead the news and become top issues in statewide elections. Across the United […]

ISO New England Capacity Auction Reforms Progress Update

By Tarik Cetin, Senior Utility and Regulatory Policy Specialist Competitive Energy Services has been following ISO New England’s (ISO-NE) capacity auction reform conversation for several years, and this update continues that ongoing coverage. Back in March 2024, we took a first look at ISONE’s early thinking on reforming the Forward Capacity Market (FCM) and why […]

Surveying the Current Energy Landscape with Matt Gamache

Tune into Surveying the Current Energy Landscape, a wide‑ranging conversation featuring Competitive Energy Services’ Chief Operating Officer Matt Gamache and Orion Breen, Executive Director of the Environmental & Energy Technology Council (E2Tech). The podcast explores the U.S. energy landscape one year into the second Trump Administration, examining growing market complexity, rising affordability concerns, emerging reliability risks, and the rapid pace of change […]

Surveying the Current Energy Landscape

By Matt Gamache, COO About a year ago, I wrote a CES Insights blog post about what we might expect from the incoming Trump administration from an energy industry perspective. The primary theme was one of uncertainty as we waded through a deluge of Executive Orders and tried to make sense of the onslaught of […]

Maine’s Energy Policy Looks to be Going Up in Smoke

By Tux Turkel is a former staff writer at the Portland Press Herald covering energy issues. At dawn on a December morning from where I live, I can see Maine’s failing energy policies drifting out into the frigid air. Across Casco Bay, I see smoke rising from the 421-foot chimney at Wyman Station in Yarmouth. This […]

New England Residents Brace for Inflated Utility Bills as Natural Gas Prices Surge: “Rising Energy Costs Create Real Challenges”

by Kristen Lawrence Electricity costs in Maine are expected to reach record levels because of elevated natural gas prices, placing a strain on household budgets and the grid. What’s causing rising electric costs? As Maine Public reported, power bills are projected to reach a three-year high because natural gas prices for electricity generation have increased by roughly […]