Central Maine Power aims to finish controversial western Maine power corridor in 2025

MAINE PUBLIC • January 3, 2025

After years of political and legal setbacks, a new power corridor through western Maine is finally nearing completion. The New England Clean Energy Connect was proposed back in 2017 as a way to deliver electricity from Canada to the U.S. Despite years of pushback the company behind the project — Connecticut-based Avangrid — says the 145-mile transmission line and power station upgrades will be operational by the end of this year. In a filing with Maine regulators, the company said a 54-mile corridor from the Canadian border to The Forks is fully cleared. More than 900 pole bases have been installed and over 750 poles erected, according to Avangrid.