Securing federal approval for the project may be complicated under the Trump administration, which has historically been hostile towards domestic wind power.
After over a decade of attempts, New England is one step closer to a major investment in wind energy. Maine’s Public Utilities Commission has selected a developer to build 800 megawatts of new onshore wind energy in Northern Maine, and a second developer to build a transmission line able to carry up to 1,200 megawatts of power down to Southern Maine and New England.
Maine is collaborating on the wind energy project with Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts, “whose residents will help pay for the transmission line via charges on their utility bills, even as two of those states elected not to sign long-term deals for the new power,” Nathaniel Eisen writes for Inside Climate News.
Before construction can commence, project leaders must secure all local, state and federal approvals. “Federal approvals remain dicey under the presidential administration of Donald Trump, which has used every tool at its disposal to block the development of domestic wind power,” Inside Climate News reports. If all goes well, PUC Chair Phil Bartlett said power will flow through the new transmission line in the early 2030s.
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