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November 25, 2025

Avangrid's hydropower project gets final Maine permit

  • The project is slated to supply up to 1,200 megawatts of Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid.
    • By PATRICK WHITTLE
    Associated Press

    PORTLAND, Maine — An energy company has received the final permit it needs from Maine to build a controversial hydropower transmission line project that promises to power hundreds of thousands of homes in Massachusetts.

    The project is slated to supply up to 1,200 megawatts of Canadian hydropower to the New England power grid. Maine voters rejected the project in a 2021 referendum after opponents ran a campaign alleging it would destroy woodlands in the state.


     
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