[Alas Babylon!]

Sorry I posted that twice—lost power momentarily (Alabama Power screwed up... Again!)... Rebooted and restored the browser session... so I clicked post again.

[upchuck]

“Alabama Power screwed up... Again!”

No UPS?

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=ups&ignorear=0&N=-1&isNodeId=1

Mine:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16842301561&Description=ups&cm_re=ups-_-42-301-561-_-Product

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Alabama Power screwed up... Again!

Well, Maine and Alabama have at least one thing in common...third world power companies...just like Puerto Rico.

Also they (CMP) have recently become the world champions of overbilling, sometimes by 200% or more, and of course their new and exciting "smart meters" have nothing to do with it.

As if that wasn't bad enough, Maine is a net exporter of power, you would think that all that surplus power would lower our rates....

...BUT NOOOOOO!

We get to pay the "uptown" rates, same as our well-heeled bretheren in the rich part of the rest of New England.

And when we had an opportunity to cash in on tons of cheap abundant hydro-power from Quebec....the RATs blew it. Same with the Dicky-Lincoln hydro project.

Harsh weather, outrageous power rates, exodus of our young, an ever aging population....why do businesses say "no thanks"?

Sounds like a "death spiral" to me.