Hydro Quebec has announced plans to team with Eversource, a major energy distribution company based in Massachusetts, to build a 1,000-megawatt transmission line to New England.
Maine Energy Office Director Patrick Woodcock says there are competing routes for the lines, which Maine Gov. Paul Lepage believes could benefit ratepayers.
"Gov. LePage has always recognized that there is a potential opportunity for the state for that investment to come to the state Maine," Woodcock says. "I think we will see over the next six months more specifics come from different transmission projects that would be in Vermont, New Hampshire and the state of Maine."
Woodcock says a decision on the final route is at least some months away and construction of the line will take years.
