Massachusetts Picks Northern Pass For Major Energy Contract
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Eversource’s Northern Pass transmission line is the sole project picked for long-term energy contract negotiations with Massachusetts.
Officials made the announcement Thursday afternoon, less than a week before New Hampshire begins its final permitting deliberations on the controversial project.
Northern Pass would carry 1,090 megawatts of power from Hydro Quebec dams to the New England grid, over a partly-buried 192-mile power line. It would run under New Hampshire’s White Mountains and mainly follow existing transmission lines, ending in Deerfield.