Acadia Center Submits Comments in Support of DOER’s and OPA’s Motions to Dismiss

Acadia Center submitted comments supporting DOER's and OPA's Motions to Dismiss Central Maine Power's rate case. The comments primarily support DOER's Motion, on the basis that Maine's Integrated Grid Planning statute states that the Maine PUC may use EDCs' IGPs in setting rates, but CMP will not have an approved IGP until March of 2026 -- and by the time CMP's proposed Multi-Year Rate Plan (MYRP) expires (if it is accepted), CMP will have already gone through the process to adopt a second IGP, meaning this first IGP will never have been available for use in rate setting. DOER calls for the case to be dismissed without prejudice, with direction that it may be refiled once CMP has an approved IGP. In the alternative, Acadia Center's comments support the OPA's Motion, which refers to a precedential CMP rate case dismissed in 2013 that substantially mirrors the current case in critical details. OPA argues that, following its own precedent, the MPUC should dismiss the docket in part, changing CMP's MYRP to a normal one-year rate case.