Maine Selects Company to Build Large Wind Farm, Plus a Transmission Line, to Send Power South

Maine selects company to build large wind farm, plus a transmission line, to send power south

Maine takes a critical step in its plans to build a large wind farm and transmission line in Aroostock County.

After years of delays, commission advances northern Maine transmission and wind project • Rhode Island Current

The Record Hill wind farm in Roxbury, Maine. (Photo via U.S. Department of Energy)The Maine Public Utilities Commission will finally move forward with plans for a new transmission line to northern Maine and an 800 megawatt wind project.  At a regular meeting Tuesday, commissioners selected Avangrid, the parent company of Central Maine Power, to build the transmission line and Clearway Energy Group to build the onshore wind project.  The bid sele…

Clearway Energy wind farm and Avangrid transmission proposals selected for Aroostook County renewable energy push

The Maine Public Utilities Commission announced its picks on Tuesday for a long-planned Northern Maine renewable energy program.

Is Maine finally about to make wind power happen?

For nearly two decades, Maine has tried to build utility-scale wind in the northern reaches of the state. On Tuesday morning, utility regulators brought that vision a little closer to reality, choosing an 800-megawatt wind farm proposal and a 1.2-gigawatt transmission line plan from the bids it received earlier this…