While I agree with the premise of having a wide array of energy sources… Rhode Island is run almost as bad as Maine, so maybe not the state we should be emulating.

Buying energy from other states comes with its own costs and issues. 

In an ideal world Maine would invest in updating the existing infrastructure and bringing the retired nuclear sites back online, or building new updated facilities. 

Why shouldn’t Maine strive to be energy independent as a state, even selling energy to other states (looking at you, MA), resulting in deep cost cuts and affordable energy for the residents of Maine?