Avangrid sues NextEra, claiming it sabotaged power corridor through western Maine
A years-long battle between 2 large energy companies over the New England Clean Energy project took a new turn in a 126-page lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Mass.
Posted November 14
Stephen Singer
Press Herald
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Avangrid Inc., the parent company of Central Maine Power Co., has sued NextEra Energy in federal court, accusing the energy giant of causing more than $350 million in business damage as it tried to sabotage the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line project.
It’s the latest round in a yearslong legal dispute over the $1.5 billion line in western Maine intended to bring hydropower from Canada to the New England electric grid.
Avangrid, the Connecticut-based developer of the 145-mile transmission line, says in the lawsuit it filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Massachusetts, that NextEra has engaged in “anticompetitive, unfair and deceptive business practices to foreclose competition for the supply of wholesale electricity.”
NextEra has “reaped hundreds of millions of dollars from these illegal practices,” Avangrid said..............................
...............Avangrid reported to the Maine Public Utilities Commission last summer that it’s making progress on construction after resuming work in October 2023. Access to the route was about 80% complete at the time of the July 1 report, it said.
Avangrid says in its lawsuit that NextEra “abused the regulatory and judicial process, misled voters with illegal dark money and false statements, and obstructed electric infrastructure improvements.” It did so to “line its own pockets by excluding lower-priced competition for electricity supply,” it said.
It accused NextEra of mounting at least 10 “baseless and failed challenges” to permitting and approval, “delaying NECEC by years.”
Read the full article at https://www.pressherald.com/2024/11/14/avangrid-sues-nextera-claimi...
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Comment by Willem Post on November 16, 2024 at 8:01am
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Coastal Maine is Democrat, the rest of Maine is Republican
It is long overdue for the Republican part of Maine to declare itself a state, to secede from Coastsl Maine
The entire wind and solar travesty imposed on Republican Maine would disappear
Maine as Third World Country:
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Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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