Put Electricity Back into the Hands of Ratepayers Sam May is a former Wall Street analyst with experience in both Silicon Valley and Hong Kong. He lives in Portland and is co-founder of Maine Harvest. AS MAINE grapples with decarbonizing its economy to meet ambitious climate mitigation goals, I urge us to think big and…
Richard Silkman, Ph.D. of Scarborough is a former director of the Maine State Planning Office and the CEO of Competitive Energy Services, an energy consulting firm based in Portland. This piece was first published as an Op-Ed in the Portland Press Herald on March 15, 2021 and is reprinted here by the author’s permission. Maine’s…
Sam May is a former Wall St analyst with significant experience in both Silicon Valley and Hong Kong. He lives in Portland and is co-founder of Maine Harvest Federal Credit Union. This piece was originally published as a Letter to the Editor in the Portland Press Herald on March 7, 2021. Tux Turkel’s Feb. 28 article succinctly…
Empower a statewide consumer-owned utility; assign grid planning to a group that functions in the public interest, and regulate utilities rigorously. Republished here by permission of the author. Appeared originally as an Op-Ed column in the Portland Press Herald on March 5, 2011 Recent news from frozen Texas, and here in Maine, chronicles the sorry…
