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hk15 t1_j1rwfmv wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in In the U.S., Maine has the longest power outages. by Zippykalzoo

https://www.maine.gov/mpuc/regulated-utilities/electricity/map/index

Maine is bigger, but also a sizable portion of the state has no electric service, or people, so it's not fair to directly compare size.

The article op linked clearly shows that Maine has almost twice as many outages, so they clearly aren't doing as well these days.

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[deleted] t1_j1s0sax wrote

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hk15 t1_j1s2bha wrote

It's also very different restoring power in south Portland than it is in Dixville notch NH. It's not as if NH and Vermont are metropolises. They are also highly forested, rural States, facing nearly identical challenges to Maine. And yet they have significantly fewer outages. It's about as apples to apples as you can get.

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hk15 t1_j1sgh4b wrote

I understand what you're saying, but looking at pure population density isn't a good metric when a large percentage of Maine does not have electric service, or basically any people. I would be interested to see how the population density compares when you remove the areas of Maine that don't have service.

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[deleted] t1_j1sl7cd wrote

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hk15 t1_j1sqklr wrote

So it shows that CMP is better than emec/nhec/vec, but they don't include data for "major event days" (figure 4, page 6). Any links to data that includes major events?

Also this study is from an obviously biased source, it's an organization fighting against the idea of turning CMP into a public co-op. So it's not surprising that they're cherry picking data to make them look good compared other electric co-ops.

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