SUN JOURNAL • December 6, 2021
The city of Lewiston issued four building permits for New England Clean Energy Connect’s converter station project in November — one for an 18,100-square foot building for $5.9 million, another 11,822-square feet for $2.9 million, another 7,000-square feet for $928,682 and a fourth 1,200-square feet for $359,476. The buildings were all part of what’s been estimated as a $250 million project at the site. With the Maine Department of Environmental Protecting suspending the license and prohibiting ongoing construction on NECEC’s $1 billion power transmission line late last month as the project winds through the courts, work at the Lewiston converter station is instead now being buttoned up. City officials had been big supporters of the NECEC project, which was rejected by voters in a statewide referendum last month.