Case Details

- Case Details:

Case Number:

2024-00099

Case Status:

Open

Utility/Industry Type :

Electric

Utility/Industry Subtype :

Transmission and Distribution Utilities (T and Ds)

Case Type :

COMMISSION INITIATED

Case Subtype :

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

Pertaining to Utility/Company :

VERSANT POWER^CENTRAL MAINE POWER COMPANY

Case Title :

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION AND TRANSMISSION PROJECTS PURSUANT TO THE NORTHERN MAINE RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (P.L. 2023 C. 660)

Initiating Filer :

PUBLIC UTILITIES COM-O

Case Start Date :

5/1/2024

Assigned Staff :

Benedict.Cracolici,
Dale.Coty,
Julie.Pallozzi,
liz.wyman,
Sally.Zeh,
Sarah.Coleman,
Michael.Haskell,
Bradley.Turner,
robert.a.creamer

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Filings (19) Data RequestsPublic Comments (23) Active Party and Notification List (393) Assigned Staff (9)

Item No.	Date Filed	Description Of Filing	Filing Party	Filed By	No of Attachments	Deleted Filings
73	10/29/2025	NextEra Energy Transmission Comments	NEXTERA ENERGY RESOURCES	Forest, Jade	1
71	10/29/2025	ISO Comments	ISO NEW ENGLAND	Gonzalez, Monica	1
70	10/29/2025	2024-00099 IECG Comments.	INDUSTRIAL ENERGY CONS GROUP - IECG	Buxton ESQ, Anthony	1
66	10/29/2025	Comments of RENEW Northeast, Inc.	Pullaro, Francis	Pullaro, Francis	2
64	10/29/2025	CLF Comments in Response to Draft RFP	CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION	Turner, Phelps	1
61	10/29/2025	Office of the Public Advocates Comments on the Draft RFP	OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC ADVOCATE	PUBLIC ADVOCATE, MAINE OFFICE OF THE	1
57	10/29/2025	Preserve Rural Maine comments on Draft RFP	PRESERVE RURAL MAINE	Blanchard, Tanya	1
54	10/15/2025	PROCEDURAL ORDER ON MODEL FOR VOLUNTARY AGREEMENT	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	2
53	10/8/2025	Procedural Order on Response to Draft Request for Proposals	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	COMMISSION STAFF, CMS	1
52	10/3/2025	ORDER ISSUING DRAFT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS	COMMISSION, MPUC	COMMISSION, MPUC	2

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Matt Stauffer 19 Darling Road Hudson Maine	10/29/2025	I'm just here to voice my opposition against anything related to the Northern Maine renewable energy development program and your clean energy corridor that keeps coming back up no matter how many times it's voted down.
Brook DeLorme Loudon, NH Email ID: brook.delorme@protonmail.com	10/29/2025	This procurement is premature. There are four other ongoing studies, rules, and RFPs which will impact any bid in response to 2024-00099. ____ These are: The Integrated Grid Planning Process (LD 1959), the Independent GEO study on the future of transmission infrastructure (LD 197), the LD 2087 rule making about rail trails, and the ISO-NE LTTP. ____ A source of the declining trust and validity of this process is the passage of LD 810 this year, which overturns the voter referendum that required 2/3 approval for transmission lines crossing public lands. ____ It is coupled to ever-increasing electric rates. If this line goes forward, with a significant purpose of providing energy to the states in southern New England, who will pay for line maintenance? ____ Will a decommissioning plan be required after the lifespan of the turbines? ____ How will site control be defined? How will it be demonstrated? ____ Will the 70% evaluation factor of "costs" include the decrease in property values proximate to the lines? In the failed Northern Pass effort in NH (32 miles of new ROW) the estimate in a study commissioned by the state was this could mean a loss of wealth to those nearby property owners of up to $30 million dollars-i.e. about a $1 million per mile. This study was 15 years ago, and property values in parts of Maine have more than doubled since.
Scott Cuddy Maine Labor Climate Council 47 Elm St Winteport, ME 04496 Email ID: scott@mainelaborclimate.org Phone No.: 2079441662	10/29/2025	See Attached for comments	MLCC 0024-00099.pdf
K Kamzelski Stockton Springs	10/29/2025	Stop Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development. The destruction and loss of homes, businesses, farmland and valuable agricultural land in Rural Maine is deplorable and those who are adversely impacted by your actions receive no benefits whatsoever. Remove your blinders and take a really good look. Do your due diligence on the havoc the destruction of Maine's infrastructure will cause. Maine was once a thriving, beautiful state, but no thanks to high powered electric lines, and solar and wind farms under the guise of renewable energy, you have and continue to destroy our natural resources, the environment and natural protection. Just look at the benefits of our forests alone. Trees help with wind by slowing it down, protecting homes and crops, and creating more temperate environments and can reduce wind speeds by up to 80% by breaking up and redirecting airflow. They can also provide benefits like reducing energy costs, preventing soil erosion, and reducing noise pollution. Please stop the destruction.
Lance Stewart Albion, ME	10/29/2025	The proposed timing of this RFP and the its evaluation process contradicts the timing already established from previous legislation and regional evaluations being conducted by ISO-NE: * - LD1959 (2022) - Under the Integrated Grid Planning (IGP) effort, CMP and Versant are required to conduct studies about necessary grid expansion with an emphasis on coordinating with ISO-NE studies, and to include evaluations of Non-Wires and Grid Enhancing Technology (e.g. Dynamic Line Ratings) alternatives. MPUC is overseeing this process. These studies will not be completed/published until 2026. * - LD197 (2025) - Requires the Governor's Office of Energy/DOER to conduct studies pertaining to the "Future of Electric Transmission Infrastructure." This process is underway and the results of these studies will not be completed/published until Fall 2026. * - LD1726 (2025) - Requires MPUC to "explore and evaluate" interconnection technologies that include "distributed energy resources." Such resources deployed at-scale can significantly reduce the need for transmission line capacity. The results of these studies will not be completed/published until early 2027. * - INO-NE Long-Term Transmission Planning (LTTP) RFP 2025 - This regional planning and project evaluation effort includes the transmission integration of a proposed 1,200 MW of wind generation "near Pittsfield, Maine." Results of this RFP and solution evaluations are not expected until Fall 2026. Lastly, in 2021 Maine voters passed a referendum requiring legislative approval on High-Impact transmission lines. LD810 (2025) removed this voter-approved oversight for projects contracted by MPUC. This goes against the will of the citizens of Maine. With the people's will of legislative oversight removed, transparency of MPUC procedures on this docket is critically important. Yet a protective order blocks citizens from seeing key information. Please serve the people in good faith and reverse the protective order.
Eric and Becky Rolfson 301 Barnes Road, Albion, ME 04910 Email ID: eric.rolfson@icloud.com	10/29/2025	Please see attached comment.	PUC Comments Docket 2024-00099.pdf
Cordelia Lane 220 Cain Hill Palermo, ME 04354 Email ID: copalane@gmail.com Phone No.: 2074150543	10/29/2025	PLEASE STOP THIS TERRIBLE IDEA. Ruining thousands of acres of beautiful northern and central Maine, building so-called "green energy" wind turbines that require enormous energy inputs in the building of them - energy inputs that may never be re-couped, a short life span of the intended wind turbines, and a huge toxic waste when the windmills are dead - all for what? More electricity for southern New England?? More electricity for AI erotica?? This project will inevitably raise energy rates for Mainers. Everything the government and PUC do raises the cost of energy for Mainers. Maine has one of the highest electrical rates in the country already. Please, dear PUC, begin to truly follow your stated mission of providing "just and reasonable rates for customers and utilities while minimizing energy costs". Reducing the greenhouse emissions inevitably raises costs for Mainers and the energy inputs are questionably "green".
Josh Kercsmar 450 Waning Rd., Unity, ME 04988	10/29/2025	Please see attachment.	Kercsmar_Comment_Case_2024-00099.pdf
Steven Ingalls Private Citizen Stetson, ME Email ID: sjiemail@yahoo.com	10/27/2025	This is a repost of a public comment I filed on 10/24/25 that was originally visible to the public, but for some reason is no longer visible. Please see attached letter dated 10/24/25.	Maine PUC Draft Northern Maine RFP Response.pdf
Penelope Gray 285 Franklin School Road FORT KENT, Maine 04743 Email ID: nadianichols@aol.com Phone No.: 207-231-2027	10/27/2025	To the members of the Maine Public Utilities Commission: Respectfully, building out transmission corridors for wind and carpeting farm fields with solar will do nothing to fill the electricity demands in Maine or points south, but it will burden rate payers with ever increasing electricity bills, destroy many thousands of acres of Maine's northern landscape and have a negative effect on water, farmlands, woods and wildlife. Wind and solar are intermittent and weak sources of energy and without hugely expensive and dangerous battery back up, both are relatively useless to the grid. They both require 24/7 back up with reliable energy sources. Just take a look at what's happening in Europe. The future is in nuclear. AI will demand it, and then all those wind towers and solar panels will need to be removed and recycled. It's time to use common sense and stop all these "green energy" projects. Maine's iconic beauty is too precious to sacrifice to these heavily subsidized pipe dreams. Thank you. Penelope Gray FORT KENT, Maine

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Notification List Active Party List

Name of Person/Company	Representing Company	Mailing Address	Email/Phone/Fax
Abbott, Charles Lincoln		12 Mill Brook Road Plainfield CT 06374	Email ID: cabbott@greenleaf-power.com Phone Ph: 916-596-2503 Fax:
Abradi, Richard		35 Hartford Street Rumford ME 04276	Email ID: Richard.Abradi@catalystpaper.com Phone Ph: 207-369-2823 Fax:
Akers, Keith		250 West 57th Street Suite 701 New York NY 10107	Email ID: keith@syncarpha.com Phone Ph: 513-237-1749 Fax:
Albert, Eben M		254 Commercial St Portland ME 04101	Email ID: ealbert@pierceatwood.com Phone Ph: 207-791-1282 Fax:
Allegretti, Dan		ME	Email ID: daniel.w.allegretti@constellation.com Phone Fax:
Allen, Chad		PO Box 1000 Pittsfield ME 04967	Email ID: callen@cianbro.com Phone Ph: 207-553-2735 Fax:
Aronson, George		ME	Email ID: GARONSON@CRMCX.COM Phone Fax:
Assistant, Smith Legal LLC		P.O. 5418 4 Wabon Street, Suite 1 Augusta ME 04332 5418	Email ID: Assistant@smithlawmaine.com Phone Ph: 207-480-1543 Fax: Fax: 207-480-1532
Bailey, Ryan		55 Technology Drive Suite 102 Lowell MA 01851	Email ID: rbailey@borregosolar.com Phone Ph: 508-240-4256 Fax:
Baker, George		ME	Email ID: GBAKER@HBS.EDU Phone Fax:

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Staff Name	Role
Coleman, Sarah	Hearing Examiner
Coty, Dale	Support Staff
Cracolici, Benedict	Staff Analyst
Creamer, Robert	Hearing Examiner
Haskell, Michael	Staff Analyst
Pallozzi, Julie	Staff Analyst
Turner, Bradley	Staff Analyst
Wyman, Liz	Reviewer
Zeh, Sally	Reviewer

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