PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • December 21, 2023
State utility regulators, citing differences over cost, have terminated an agreement for a proposed transmission line that would have brought wind power from northern Maine to the New England grid. Philip L. Bartlett II, chairman of the Maine Public Utilities Commission, said at the agency’s meeting Thursday that the developer, LS Power, informed regulators that it “can no longer hold to its price” for the transmission line that would extend up to 160 miles. “This is a nonstarter,” Bartlett said. The PUC will terminate the procurement and initiate a new one.