Personally I'm absolutely for ditching CMP, I don't think a state enforced monopoly can be owned by a company without them exploiting their position. I'm also not a huge fan of them be Saudi owned. I figure a community owned power company could make some great changes. I don't have much inside knowledge about them but I do know the data they give their contractors is garbage. I'm curious if anyone has any other information about either CMP or Pine Tree Power and how they feel about them.
Public companies are legally required to always do their best to grow year over year. Eventually these companies get so large they can't realistically get more market share so they have to figure out how to make more money from their users. This leads to them squeezing users for cash in the hunt for short term gains because they've already realistically capped out on how much money they can make per year. It's a dumb system that can't work in the long term.