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New England has been trying to build an 1.2MW ~150mi interconnect from Canada through Maine down to Massachusetts for many years now, and was hoping to wrap the project up this year. https://www.bangordailynews.com/2025/01/03/business/business...

Its been very controversial, especially because most of the land gows through Maine, cutting a line across it. Without doing much to improve Maine's grid. Mainer's passed a ballot initiative to halt the project, but courts ruled that Mainer's didn't have any right to halt the project.

So, the Central Maine Power (the power company) Corridor - officially called the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) - was back on. With various rounds of tax increases for various states & federal grants. Total cost has gone from $1B to over $1.5b.

Conceptually seems like a good idea! It's so unfortunate that it's such a visible cut through & across the land. And now, with this madness, who knows what the future holds.

>>jaunty+(OP)
Did you mean GW?

>>jeffbe+m6
I did! Thank you! I translated 1200 MW in my head to 1.2 GW but forgot to M->G by the time it came to post.

1.2MW is ~1600 HP, or two modern EV's at peak power. Let's hope that's not what all the fuss is for! :)