Filing Requirements

Reporting Requirement

Maine's electric restructuring rules require that competitive electricity providers (CEPs) submit annual reports to the Maine Public Utilities Commission (Commission) on or before July 1st of each year. These reports allow us to monitor the progress of restructuring in Maine and verify that CEPs are complying with certain portions of Maine's rules.

The reporting requirements are contained in Chapters 305, 306, and 311 of the Commission's rules. Because of changes in the governing statutes, the Commission made changes in chapter 311 (see dockets numbered 2019-00177, 2020-00212, 2021-00213) to reflect all the RPS requirements.

Reporting Form

The Annual Report consists of one Excel workbook. The reporting form MUST be submitted in MS Excel format. There are two versions of the Excel Workbook: one for CEPs providing supplier services and the other for CEPs providing aggregator/broker services. Current versions are made available each April here. The Excel template for CEPs providing supplier services is updated every year to reflect the RPS certification status of generation facilities as of the current compliance year. The tab labeled “Instructions” provides a color-coded guide to the template describing the required and optional tabs the CEP will complete. Please read all instructions carefully as many functions in the template have changed. The spreadsheets are locked to ensure uniformity. The tab labeled “Changes” lists the changes that were made from the previous version.

By completing and filing the report, CEPs will have met the Commission's reporting requirements.

All CEPs licensed up to and during the current compliance year, including aggregators and brokers, must file this report even if there were no transactions under their license in Maine during the compliance year. This allows us to track the activity in the state and ensure that CEPs have not failed to comply. Failure to file your annual report pursuant to Chapter 305 § 2(E) may result in formal Commission action, up to and including the initiation of an enforcement proceeding seeking revocation of your CEP license in accordance with § 3(A)(4).

Alternative Compliance Payments

If you are making Alternative Compliance Payments to meet any of the RPS requirements, please send a check to the Commission.

  • If using standard mail, send the check to our mailing address: 18 State House Station, Augusta, ME 04333-0018.
  • If using a courier (e.g. UPS, FedEx, etc.), send the check to our physical address: 26 Katherine Drive, Hallowell, ME 04347.

With your payment, include a letter accompanying the remittance which clearly states:

  1. the name of the CEP(s) to which the amount applies, and
  2. the amounts that should be allocated to each compliance category (i.e. Class I, Class IA, etc.) for each CEP.

All checks should be made out to "Treasurer State of Maine". If you have questions on how to make a payment, please contact Lori Nolette at (207) 287-1571.

If you have additional questions regarding the reporting requirements or the filing process, please contact Lucretia A. Smith at (207) 287-1383.  If you have questions on how to fill out the templates, please contact Ethan Grumstrup at (207) 287-1560.

Confidentiality

The annual report is a public document. However, CEPs have the option of treating certain information in the report confidentially. Each April following the compliance year, the Commission issues a protective order in a new docket to allow confidential treatment for the Summary tab, the response to Question 6 of tab 2, responses to questions 9, 16 and 19 of tab 3, tabs 4 through 7, and tabs A through C of the Excel report template.

When filing the report, a CEP has three options:

  1. If the CEP does not wish to treat their report as confidential, then you only need to file one version (in Excel format).
  2. If the CEP wants to keep portions of the report confidential, it must submit the complete report as an unredacted confidential version in Excel format AND a redacted (public) version which may be in PDF or Excel format.
  3. As noted above, confidential treatment for a large part of the annual CEP report has already been granted. If the CEP wants to keep additional information confidential, it must file a request for protective treatment in the current docket specifying the additional information to be protected, reasons the protection would be warranted, and the harm that would come from the release of the information. This request must be filed by June 1 following the compliance year.