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Filings (123) Data Requests (10)Public Comments (88) Active Party and Notification List (71) Assigned Staff (12)

Item No.	Date Filed	Description Of Filing	Filing Party	Filed By	No of Attachments	Deleted Filings
123	3/24/2025	Versant - Additional Supporting Documents - Compliance Filing	VERSANT POWER	Albert, Eben M	4
122	3/21/2025	MPD Tariff Approved 4/1/25	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	1
121	3/21/2025	BHD Tariff Approved 4/1/25	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	1
120	3/19/2025	Versant Power - Compliance Filing - Tariff Sheets	VERSANT POWER	Albert, Eben M	11
119	3/14/2025	Versant Power Compliance Filing	VERSANT POWER	Albert, Eben M	3
118	3/13/2025	Order	COMMISSION, MPUC	COMMISSION, MPUC	1
117	3/11/2025	Procedural Order (Interventions and Schedule)	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	1	Filed in Error
116	3/11/2025	Procedural Order (Compliance)	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	1
115	3/11/2025	Procedural Order (Compliance)	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	1	Filed in Error
114	3/4/2025	Versant Power Exceptions to Examiners' Report	VERSANT POWER	Albert, Eben M	2

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DR Set ID	Set Description	Issue Date	No. of DR Questions	Propounded Upon	View Questions in Set
AREA-001	First Set of Data Requests by AEA	3/29/2024	18	VERSANT POWER	View Questions
AREA-002	AREA-002-001 (Unfunded Reserves)	5/2/2024	1	VERSANT POWER	View Questions
EMT-001	EMT Data Requests to Versant	3/27/2024	5	VERSANT POWER	View Questions
EXM-001	Introduction & Overview	3/27/2024	8	VERSANT POWER	View Questions
EXM-002	Revenue Requirements	3/27/2024	27	VERSANT POWER	View Questions
EXM-003	Distribution Operations and Reliability	3/27/2024	47	VERSANT POWER	View Questions
EXM-004	Capital Forecast	3/27/2024	19	VERSANT POWER	View Questions
EXM-005	Customer Experience	3/27/2024	28	VERSANT POWER	View Questions
EXM-006	IT & Business Technology	3/27/2024	54	VERSANT POWER	View Questions
EXM-007	Human Resources	3/27/2024	5	VERSANT POWER	View Questions

Posted By	Posted Date	Comments	Attachment(s)
Anonymous N/A	3/14/2025	Good morning, I would like to make an anonymous comment on case 2023-00336 rate hike for Versant Power. I would not like my email listed or last name. Thank you, As a young Mainer who relies on paychecks to survive like many have been hit hard by the already numerous rate hikes you (the Maine PUC) approved. I am a one income household and having to keep paying more and more for electric isn't an easy option for me but definitely not an option for many lower income people and households. How much does the president and CEO of versant power make? Do you the PUC know that? I'm going to guess six figures or more meanwhile living in a county where the annual income is between $55,000-$59,000 and I don't even make the lesser of that a year. I work full time but shouldn't need to work 40+ hours a week at one job and part time at another to pay bills. Does the UPC know how much an electric bill is now by Versant? My guess is not since the PUC keeps approving rate hikes especially numerous times last year. Do the right thing and say no to Versant. They can budget better especially since the chances their executives make way more than an average Mainer does is pretty good. Enough is enough with rising costs, I can't demand a raise because of tariffs or cost of living why should they multiple times a year? Doesn't the Public Utility Commission work for the people of Maine and not the utility companies because it seems you always lean towards them? Please don't approve it, it's not just electric bills that people pay and those can also differ month to month. It's getting extremely frustrating when all I see is Maine UPC approved another rate hike (look at how many you approved in the last two years) I am sure they can come up with another solution. Thank you
Nichole Marino 62 Forest Ave. Fort Fairfield, ME 04742	3/13/2025	I am writing to express my concern and frustration with the Maine PUC permitting Versant to raise prices within 2 months of our last rate hike. The average yearly salary of Versant's CEO is $672,476, according to Salary.com. The average yearly salary for residents of Aroostook county is $50,843 and the average for the full state is $58,279. Mainers cannot afford continual rate hikes. Versant has the ability to prevent these hikes. I am an educator. I make less than $42000 per year to teach at a high school in Aroostook county. This winter, our electric bill averaged about $800 per month for a 1600 square foot home. We have a propane system, black out curtains on every window, keep doors closed to effectively utilize zone heating, put additional weather stripping on our doors to prevent any possible drafts, and kept our house between 66 and 68 degrees, which I personally find uncomfortable. Even with being cold every second I spent at home this winter, our bill was still unaffordable. And we were told that we were not eligible for assistance because my wife's salary puts us just above the threshold, even though that means that without simply putting it off to pay it over the course of the year we would not be able to afford groceries - which we also are not eligible for assistance with. Versant is making a choice here. If Versant has concerns about price increases due to tariffs from Canada, Versant needs to reevaluate how they have budgeted to pay their CEO almost 3/4 of a million a year. And the PUC needs to make that clear to Versant. You have the power to do so. You choose not to, at the detriment of the people you are supposed to be working in the best interest of.
chris armstrong 22 cross rd washburn maine Email ID: badboy_259@hotmail.com Phone No.: 2072274693	3/12/2025	hi i receive electricity from versant power and im on limited income. if my bill is 400 dollars and versant power is going up 23.2 percent then we are going to have tariffs on the electricity bill of 25 percent how can a person survive paying that much just for electricity. i rent my home. i need to run a pump in the basement due to the fact that i have water in it all the time. how can one survive. by the time i pay rent and heat plus now light bill is going up more i wont even have enough to get my personal items. i realize costs from storms and everything but every year it has gone up. something needs to be done especially for people that are on limited income. versant power is basically the only power company for presque isle maine area so basically if they want to raise prices they do and theres nothing anybody can do about. i hope theres something going to be done about this cause alot of people are going to be without power
Krista 264 Mohawk Road Email ID: dubay_2009@hotmail.com	3/12/2025	I'm not really sure how to write this other then it's very frustrating the rates keep increasing. It's hard enough to afford everything in these times and paying so much for such an essential part of life, is stressful. Financially, everyone is struggling to afford to just simply live. For some, living paycheck to paycheck already is tough. Please reconsider another solution, instead of raising already increased rates. Thank you.
Joseph Cox 11 Whitney CT Email ID: Usmlax2001@gmail.com Phone No.: 2073555637	3/12/2025	This rate increase is criminal. The grid was neglected for years and now we are paying to fix it. Versant has the ability to shop around for materials we have no choice but to have them has a power provider. We just had a referendum question on having a state run power company and Versant and CMP parent companies were able to spend 10s of millions in a campaign against it. If they had the money to throw into a campaign why are we giving them additional money. This commission needs to look out for the Maine people and actually hold them to account for how they are spending our money. These rates are becoming unsustainable. Poor them they are impacted by inflation. Guess what we are all impacted by inflation but I don't get to file with my boss for a pay increase.
Leslie Knowlton Winter: 334 E. Linden Ave. Englewood, NJ 07631 Summer: 512 Dunham Point Rd. Deer Isle, ME 04627 Email ID: lk@leslieknowlton.com Phone No.: 917.331.2012	3/5/2025	Please see attached comments.	REVersantCasesPublicComments.docx
Jeffrey Dyer Forest Ridge Campground 40 Flockamoosen Way Ellsworth Me Email ID: forestridgecampground@gmail.com Phone No.: 2076647070	5/9/2024	Say No to Versant Power's Request. Received a letter from Versant yesterday, seriously, a 3500% increase? Enough is enough!
JOY L SINCLAIR 211 CENTER ST Email ID: joysef99@gmail.com Phone No.: 2072270722	4/23/2024	I hereby submit the official opinion that this electricity rate increase is preposterous. If Versant and CMP had spent $24 million dollars on infrastructure instead of a massive No on 3 campaign, which was doomed to fail anyhow, the storms that affected us this past winter would have been a much lesser issue. Reference: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/me/maine/news/2023/10/06/maine-question3-cmp-versent-pine-tree-power- We are Mainers. We work hard and we expect our electricity to work. This is not Texas. As a child growing up in Maine, we almost never lost power, and I was outside a tiny town in the middle of central Maine. It's completely unheard of to lose power as often as we do IN A CITY, and these monopolies can beg the PUC for approval anytime they want to raise rates. They can complain about our infrastructure, but if they'd been keeping up with that instead of wasting money and padding politicians' pockets, we would not be in this situation. Reference: https://www.maine.gov/governor/mills/news/radio_address/please-vote-no-question-3-2023-09-20 Wages in Maine DO NOT allow for continued rate hikes. We can't afford houses. We can't afford rent. We are PLEADING. Reference: https://www.bangordailynews.com/2023/06/17/business/maine-apartments-are-unaffordable-joam40zk0w/ Do not allow this rate increase. Force these monopolies to dig into the pockets of their C-suite and chastize them for not spending money to keep up our infrastructure. I live in town, and cannot even believe the amount of times I've lost power for transformers that have aged out blowing up. No, no, no more rate increases.
Anonymous None Provided	4/18/2024	See attached. Received by mail 4-18-24	2023-00336 4-18-24 Public Comment.pdf
Dana Francey 36 Libbey Ln Email ID: danalfrancey@gmail.com Phone No.: 2072992926	4/15/2024	Power in Maine is far too expensive. We are one of the most poor states yet electricity is in the top 5. You wanted us to buy heat pumps, then rates double/triple.. its not worth running them all winter long like it used to be. Now the latest push is electric vehicles.. well most EVs average 2.4 miles per KwH in Maine over the course of the year since winter hits their efficiency - that makes it 12.4 cents a mile (not counting charger inefficiency losses) to drive a mile in an electric car... meanwhile a far cheaper ICE vehicle with 33mpg mileage is costing 10 cents a mile. It isnt supposed to be backwards like this.

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Notification List Active Party List

Name of Person/Company	Representing Company	Mailing Address	Email/Phone/Fax
Albert, Eben M	VERSANT POWER	254 Commercial St Portland ME 04101	Email ID: ealbert@pierceatwood.com Phone Ph: 207-791-1282 Fax:
Alexander, Barbara Reid		44 Beech Street Hallowell ME 04347	Email ID: barbalexand@gmail.com Phone Ph: 207-458-1049 Fax:
Assistant, Smith Legal LLC		P.O. 5418 4 Wabon Street, Suite 1 Augusta ME 04332 5418	Email ID: Assistant@smithlawmaine.com Phone Ph: 207-480-1543 Fax: Fax: 207-480-1532
Blackman, Johannah R.		P.O. Box 75 Mount Desert ME 04660	Email ID: johannah@aclimatetothrive.org Phone Ph: 207-370-5762 Fax:
Bonam, Noel		ME	Email ID: nbonam@aarp.org Phone Fax:
Bouchard, Brian Paul		12 Brewer Road Presque Isle ME 04769	Email ID: brian.bouchard@wagmtv.com Phone Ph: 207-554-5967 Fax:
Boundeau, Reina		7 Joans Drive #2 Orrington ME 04474 ME	Email ID: fortretire374@gmail.com Phone Ph: 207-975-2715 Fax:
Brockway, Jodie		41 Tamworth Farm Road Blue Hill ME 4614	Email ID: Phone Extn: 0 Fax:
Burgess, Dan	GOVERNORS ENERGY OFFICE	ME	Email ID: Dan.Burgess@maine.gov Phone Fax:
Burnes, Ian G	EFFICIENCY MAINE TRUST	151 Capital Street Augusta ME 04330	Email ID: ian.burnes@efficiencymaine.com Phone Ph: 207-213-4149 Fax:

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Staff Name	Role
Coleman, Sarah	Hearing Examiner
Coty, Dale	Support Staff
Davidson, Derek	Reviewer
Grumstrup, Ethan	Staff Analyst
Healy, Nora	Hearing Examiner
Horton, Joyce	Staff Analyst
Lohrman, William	Staff Analyst
McBride, Jameson	Staff Analyst
Simmons, Michael	Staff Analyst
Smith, Lucretia	Staff Analyst

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Name of Person/Company	Representing Company	Mailing Address	Email/Phone/Fax
Albert, Eben M	VERSANT POWER	254 Commercial St Portland ME 04101	Email ID: ealbert@pierceatwood.com Phone Ph: 207-791-1282 Fax:
Burgess, Dan	GOVERNORS ENERGY OFFICE	ME	Email ID: Dan.Burgess@maine.gov Phone Fax:
Burnes, Ian G	EFFICIENCY MAINE TRUST	151 Capital Street Augusta ME 04330	Email ID: ian.burnes@efficiencymaine.com Phone Ph: 207-213-4149 Fax:
Buxton ESQ, Anthony	INDUSTRIAL ENERGY CONS GROUP - IECG	PO Box 1058 45 Memorial Circle Augusta ME 04332	Email ID: abuxton@preti.com Phone Ph: 207-623-5300 Fax: Fax: 207-623-2914
Chamberlin, Susan W	OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC ADVOCATE	103 Water Street, 3rd Flr SHS #112 Hallowell ME 04347	Email ID: susan.w.chamberlin@maine.gov Phone Ph: 207-624-3679 Fax: Fax: 207-287-4300
Donahue Esq., Joseph	INDUSTRIAL ENERGY CONS GROUP - IECG	PO Box 1058 45 Memorial Circle Augusta ME 04332	Email ID: jdonahue@preti.com Phone Ph: 207-623-5300 Extn: 3293 Fax: Fax: 207-623-2914
Dorko P.E., Bob	INDUSTRIAL ENERGY CONS GROUP - IECG	1329 Waterville Road Skowhegan ME 04976	Email ID: kbdorko@beeline-online.net Phone Ph: 207-238-3127 Fax:
Feigenbaum, Eric	VERSANT POWER		Email ID: eric.feigenbaum@versantpower.com Phone Fax:
Harwood, William S.	OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC ADVOCATE	103 Water Street 3rd Flr Hallowell ME 04347	Email ID: william.harwood@maine.gov Phone Ph: 207-624-3680 Fax:
Haslett, Nat	EFFICIENCY MAINE TRUST	168 Capitol St, STE 1 Augusta ME 04330	Email ID: nat.haslett@efficiencymaine.com Phone Ph: 207-553-3068 Fax: