Central Maine Power gets approval from DEP for transmission line project

DAILY ENERGY INSIDER • May 13, 2020

Central Maine Power Company (CMP) got a permit from the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to build the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) project. The project includes a 145-mile electric transmission line that runs from Beattie Township near the Quebec border to a new converter station in Lewiston. It also includes several upgrades to CMP’s existing electrical transmission network between Lewiston and Pownal, Windsor and Wiscasset, and in Cumberland. Roughly two-thirds of line is proposed to be built along CMP’s existing transmission corridor. The new portions of the line would run through commercial timberland in western Somerset and Franklin counties.