PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • October 25, 2021
An ongoing, high-stakes dispute between the owner of the Seabrook Station nuclear power plant in New Hampshire and the New England Clean Energy Connect’s parent company threatens to delay the $1 billion transmission line past a planned 2023 in-service date and hamstring similar clean-energy projects nationally. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is trying to referee a multimillion-dollar dispute between Avangrid Inc., the domestic parent company of Central Maine Power and NECEC Transmission LLC, and Florida-based NextEra Energy Resources, which owns the New Hampshire atomic power station. The federal-level fight represents yet another obstacle for NECEC, roughly a week before Maine voters are set to weigh in on a ballot question aimed at killing the project.