Central Maine Power has begun approaching landowners in the Lewiston area about selling their land as part of the company’s plan to spend $1 billion over the next five years to upgrade a 400-mile system of high capacity power lines, transformers and other equipment.
The system, built in the 1960s and 1970s and covering an area that starts in Eliot and continues through central Maine and ends in Orrington, is becoming outdated as “the population shifts, demand increases and concerns about reliability grow,” the Sun Journal in Lewiston reports.
CMP will need to buy strips of land, or whole lots, to complete the project.
