New Suppliers

If you are a provider of electricity interested in doing business in our service area, there are three important processes you must complete.

First, you must be licensed by the state of Maine.

Second, you must contact Northern Maine Independent System Administrator (“NMISA”) for a company identification number and Load Asset Account number.

Third, you must be certified by Maine Public Service Company (“MPS”) to supply electricity through our system.

Licensing

If you are interested in becoming licensed in the state of Maine to provide energy to retail customers, you should first visit the Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC):

http://www.maine.gov/mpuc/industries/electricity/ElectricSupplier/ch305web.htm.

A list of energy suppliers currently licensed in the state of Maine can be found at:

http://www.maine.gov/mpuc/industries/electricity/ElectricSupplier/ceplist.htm.

A supplier training schedule has been created for energy suppliers and can be found at:

http://www.cmpco.com/SuppliersAndPartners/MainesElectricityMarket/CompProviderService/ProviderTraining.html

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The MPUC has an entire site set up for energy suppliers at

http://www.maine.gov/mpuc/industries/electricity/info_elec_supplier.html.

Certification

If you are interested in becoming a MPS certified supplier, you must first become licensed by the state of Maine. Then, you must successfully complete Maine´s Electronic Business Transactions (“EBT”) supplier training program. Finally, you will need to complete MPS´s Electronic Data Interchange (“EDI”) test plan (see below).

Contact for Supplier Contract

Contact Gina LeBlanc-Eggert at (207) 760-2458 or email, gleblanceggert@mainepublicservice.com, for the details on how to become a MPS certified energy supplier or any requests for customer historical information or other non-EDI information requests.

Maine Public´s EDI Supplier Test Process & Plan

Our EDI Supplier Test Process and Plan can be downloaded here.

Electricity Provider Contract Exhibits

Go here to download a sample template of Maine Public´s electricity provider contract exhibits:

http://www.maine.gov/mpuc/electricity/electric_supply/contract.htm.

Certified Energy Suppliers´ EDI Testing

Please contact Nola Amero at (207) 760-2332 or email, namero@mainepublicservice.com, for testing and registration information.

Standard Offer

Retail RFP

If you are interested in becoming a standard offer supplier for the state of Maine, go to click here.

Standard Offer Rates

For information on standard offer rates, go to click here.

Bidding Information

Support Data (for use in both Retail & Wholesale RFP processes)

For information on MPS’s Retail Standard Offer Provider Agreement and MPS Data, can be found on click here. For Wholesale RFP information, click here.

MPS Terms & Conditions

For a copy of the Terms and Conditions which contain pricing for specific tasks (e.g. billing, distribution of Uniform Disclosure Labels) that MPS will do on behalf of Standard Offer Suppliers, please click here.

Load Profiling & Settlement

For additional information pertaining to the determination of Supplier hourly loads, click here.

EDI/EBT

Maine´s Electronic Business Transactions (EBT)

For information regarding Maine's business standards and methods of document transportation, click here to go to the site which provides the most current working documents:

http://www.cmpco.com/SuppliersAndPartners/EBTEDI/default.html

(To read this file, you will need Adobe Acrobat, available from www.adobe.com.)

Schedules

This table provides the approximate scheduled date each meter reading cycle will be read throughout the year. This schedule is used to validate enrollment transactions per Maine's EBT Standards, and is a reference for suppliers when submitting customer accounts for enrollment. Click here to download the schedule.

Holiday Schedule Used for Settlement

Go here to view the MPS holiday schedule to be used for load settlement. All holidays listed will be treated as weekends. All other non-weekend days will have weekday profiles applied in estimating supplier hourly loads.

Rates

Rate Schedules

For information on rates, click here.