Media Coverage

Energy is a widely reported on topic New England. State energy policies, new generation development projects, transmission development, including Green Line, receive considerable attention in the public media, as well as in industry trade publications. Articles reported in the New England media that are relevant to Green Line, renewable energy development, and transmission in the region are carried here.

News Reports: Portland Press Herald staff writer Tux Terkel on May 13, 2012 offers two articles on the continued need for more transmission in Maine to move alternative energy, despite Central Maine Power’s Maine Power Reliability Project. “For alternative energy producers, is it worth plugging in?” (PDF, 107K) and “CMP, Producers at Odds Over New System”. (PDF, 32K).
“Renewable Anxiety”, Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine – Back Story, April 6, 2012 (PDF, 38K)
Green Line – An Innovative Approach to Massachusetts’s Environmental and Energy Future.
Affordable Energy News, Fall 2008 (PDF, 1.6 MB)

Industry News

China has begun construction on the world’s largest capacity transmission line. The 800kV high voltage direct current line began on May 13, 2012. The HVDC line is 1,400 miles long and will carry up to 8,000 megawatts of power. (Read more…)

Benefits

Green Line will strengthen the transmission grid in New England and help provide greater access to competitively priced non-carbon emitting resources in Maine and eastern Canada. Read more…

Media Coverage

Maine’s Portland Press Herald reports on May 13, 2012 that Central Maine Power’s $1.4 billion transmission upgrade will not provide benefits needed by alternative energy projects in northern and eastern Maine. Read more….