CMP's Influence On the MPUC
Category: Other
Updated: 29 Jan 2020
Contributors
Created byJohn Baker
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Events
CMP's key document is published:
"Economic and Employment
Contributions Of The New England
Clean Energy Connect In Maine"CMP publishes a key document:
"NECEC Transmission Project: Benefits
to Maine Ratepayers"
This document was written for CMP
by a former CMP marketing manager
and energy consultant.MPUC
Independent
Analysis of Electricity
Market and Macroeconomic
Benefits of the NECEC Project
is published.Western Mountains and
Rivers Corporation, founded
by people with a financial interest
in seeing the CMP corridor project
be completed, files as a non-profit
corporation.New Hampshire's
Site Evaluation Committee
officially rejects Northern Pass
due to impacts on business
and tourism.Vermont's Public Service Board
approves the New England
Power Link from Quebec to
Massachusetts.Massachusetts chooses
the NH Northern Pass power line
from Quebec to Massachusetts.CMP and WMRC sign the
Memorandum of Understanding.
CMP agrees to pay $250,000 within
10 days, then $50,000
per year for 5 years.
CMP will pay WMRC another
$22 million if the CMP corridor
project is completed.WMRC Updates their bylaws.WMRC receives the initial
$250,000 payment from CMPCMP paid $250,000
to WMRC in June 2019.
WMRC has $83,000
remaining in June 2020.
Where did the $167,000 go?CMP submits the
application for the permits
to construct the NECEC
power line from the Canadian
border to MassachusettsJoseph Christopher, Director of
the WMRC, sends a letter to Jim Beyers
of Maine Department of Environmental Protection.
Christoper states that:
"The local environmental position
is that the NECEC powerline needs
to prefer the overhead solution to
cross the Kennebec Gorge."Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC)
publishes their Examiners Report
MPUC's Examiners Report takes guidance
from CMP's WM&RC, stating on page 37
"WM&RC also asserts that the NECEC will
likely provide lower wholesale market prices."
When did WM&RC become an expert on
wholesale electricity costs, and why would
the MPUC take guidance from WM&RC on
electricity prices?Periods
CMP pays $35,000
to have a key document written:
"Economic and Employment
Contributions Of The New England
Clean Energy Connect In Maine"
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