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- U.S. electrical grid stronger on 10th anniversary of blackout (8/10/13)
AP - The U.S. electrical grid is better managed and more flexible a decade after its largest blackout but remains vulnerable to increasingly extreme weather, cybersecurity threats, and stress caused by shifts in where and how power is produced.
- Forest society tells Northern Pass: Hey, we own land under Route 3 (7/31/13)
Northern Pass partners may think momentum is shifting in their favor after announcing a new route in June for hydroelectric transmission lines through the North Country, but the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests believes it still has an ace up its sleeve.
- Franconia Notch chamber opposes Northern Pass (7/22/13)
The Franconia Notch Regional Chamber of Commerce is the latest North Country chamber to go on record as opposed to the Northern Pass hydroelectric project
- Novel project in Maine aims to avoid cost of power line (7/15/13)
BOOTHBAY HARBOR — How many LED light bulbs does it take to avoid asking utility customers to spend $18 million on a new transmission line?
- Inadequate transmission lines keeping some Maine wind power off the grid (8/4/13)
After spending $1 billion in Maine to build 11 projects, wind energy companies have a problem: The transmission lines connecting them to the New England grid sometimes are too weak to carry all their power.
- Opinion: Nancy Martland: Who do you think you’re kidding, Northern Pass? (7/28/13)
Today's mail brought a Northern Pass brochure touting its “new route.” It paints a rosy picture, the colors are soft and inviting, and the graphics look nice, but it is disingenuous at best. Beginning with the headline, “We’ve listened.”
- Opinion: Hydro-Québec should bury its proposed Northern Pass power line (7/15/13)
Nancy Martland is coordinator of Sugar Hill Tower Opponents, a group in New Hampshire opposed to the Northern Pass project