Title : Update On Canadian-Massachusetts Power Line -- November 4, 2018
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Update On Canadian-Massachusetts Power Line -- November 4, 2018
Background at this link. Data points:- Massachusetts needs more electricity; closing down coal and nuclear power plants
- three sources:
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- renewable energy (which, of course, is not enough to make up for lost coal, nuclear)
- natural gas pipelines from the west
- hydroelectricity from Canada
- proposed pipeline projects were killed early on even if they were ever considered
- that left hydroelectricity from Canada but required huge, new, ugly, high-power transmission eline through Maine (LOL -- like that will ever happen)
- 145-mile long transmission line
- transmission line: Avangrid
- Maine's PUC holds the cards including the four ace
- Avangrid hoped to have state permits by end of 2018
- now shooting for March, 2019
- unfortunately, a separate review by Maine's environmental regulators was also required
- and, oh by the way, federal regulators are also reviewing the high-energy transmission line
- in-service deadline: 2022
- unlikely allies
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- power plant owners in Maine who feel threatened by power plants in Massachusetts which apear to be heavily subsidized by the state of Massachusets
- environmentalists worried about impact of the transmission line
- allies hoping for a "Northern Pass scenario" -- death by regulator scrutiny
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- Northern Pass here; HydroQuebec and Eversource
- and, here; it too was going to bring clean energy to Massachusetts; but it was quickly rejected
- who, what killed the preferred route, the Northern Pass route? New Hampshire
- the new project -- the one that goes through Maine:
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- New England Clean Energy Connect
- $950 million project (or $1 billion in round numbers)
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