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Friday, September 3, 2010 at 9:37 AM Energy News Roundup: August 28-September 3
This week in regional energy news …
- The Cape Wind project stepped over a major hurdle this week as the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court approved, by a 4-2 vote, the offshore development’s consolidated “super permit” approving a transmission cable that will traverse state tidelands. Cape Wind still awaits the Massachusetts DPU’s go-ahead.
- On Tuesday, the Maine Public Utilities Commission granted conditional approval to CMP’s plans to connect the Record Hill wind project to the utility’s transmission lines. To do so, CMP will construct a new 115-kV line.
- A two-day conference of New England and Atlantic Canada business leaders in Bangor, Maine, this week was focused greatly on energy issues, particularly a reduction in consumption of fossil fuels.
- Solar panels area heading from Maine to the roof of the White House.
- First Wind is looking into an 80-megawatt wind project in Eastbrook and Township 16, Maine.
- Meanwhile, Rumford, Maine, selectmen consulted with representatives from First Wind and the Maine DEP regarding proposed town ordinances relating to wind.
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