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Massachusetts request boosts northern energy projects

WILSON RING meter) $1.2 billion power
Associated Press line down Lake Champlain
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — from the Canadian border
A request by the state of and then across the state
Massachusetts for a supply to Ludlow, where it would
of clean, renewable elec- hook up to the New Eng-
tricity could give a boost to land power grid, said his
proposals to carry Cana- company would be submit-
dian renewable energy to ting a proposal.
southern New England via Jessome said that’s “in-
proposed transmission lines credibly important” for “the
in Vermont, New Hamp- clean energy space in New
shire and Maine. England.”
There are a handful of In New Hampshire, the
proposals across the three Northern Pass project that
states designed to help hopes to run a 192-mile
energy-hungry states Mas- (309-kilometer) power line
sachusetts, Rhode Island from the Canadian border
and Connecticut make to Deerfield, will also be fil-
use of the renewable en- ing a proposal.
ergy available in Canada “We intend to respond to
and experts say the Mas- it and we believe we are
sachusetts request gives a positioned very strongly to
huge boost to those efforts. This photo shows an array of mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating site in Primm, Nev. respond in a winning fash-
(AP Photo/John Locher)
“This one feels real,” said ion,” said Northern Pass
Kerrick Johnson, vice quiring the state to solicit sell to the southern New provide the 1,200 mega- spokesman Martin Murray.
president of the Vermont long-term contracts with England states and New watts of power, enough This is Round 2 of green
Electric Power Company, offshore wind farm devel- York. to power about 180,000 power proposals for Massa-
which manages the elec- opers to bring at least 1,600 But the challenge has been homes. chusetts, Connecticut and
trical distribution system in megawatts of wind energy, to get that power from The proposals are due this Rhode Island.
the state. enough to power about Canada to those areas. summer. Last year, the three states
For years, the southern New 240,000 homes, to the state There are a handful of Kevin O’Shea, of the Mas- selected a half-dozen so-
England states, faced with and 1,200 megawatts of re- transmission proposals in sachusetts Department of lar and wind developers for
the need for new sourc- newable energy, including the three states that could Energy Resources, said the projects totaling 460 mega-
es of clean power, have hydropower, onshore wind carry that power south. request is an important step watts.
been looking for sources of and solar power. On March 31, five Mas- toward meeting the state’s That was shy of the request
renewable electricity. A number of Canadian sachusetts electric utilities clean energy goals. for proposal of 600 mega-
As part of that effort last utilities have hydro-electric, and the state’s Depart- Donald Jessome, CEO of watts, roughly the amount
summer, Massachusetts wind and solar projects ment of Energy Resources TDI New England, which of electricity once pro-
Gov. Charlie Baker, a Re- that can produce electric- issued a request for propos- has all the needed permits duced by the now-defunct
publican, signed a law re- ity that they would like to als for projects that would to run a 154-mile (248-kilo- Vermont Yankee Power.q