Massachusetts intends to finance up to 40% of a wind power project in far northern Maine, potentially giving the state the partner it needs to make the project a reality.
The project has found that partner in Massachusetts, Jackson said. The state’s commitment will also help finance the Northern Maine Transmission Line needed to distribute power, he said.
The project follows the creation of the Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development Program, which the state established to try to better promote clean energy projects in its vast rural north. Maine officials have also touted the importance of renewable energy to the state’s future. Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, signed a bill in 2021 to help create the firstThe finding from Massachusetts to participate in the wind project is “welcome support,” said Dan Burgess, director of the Governor’s Energy Office in Maine. He called the effort a “vital and transformational clean energy project.”
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