June 23, 2008
Gridlock kills boiler project
A $50 million biomass boiler planned for Millinocket is stalled because of congestion in the power grid.
Jerry Tudan of Peregrine Technologies in Harpswell had secured funding for the 17-megawatt boiler and was ready to seek permitting when he was told by ISO-New England that the Stetson Mountain wind farm project had registered earlier and had maxed out access to the grid, the Bangor Daily News reported. The boiler would have brought about 45 full-time jobs to the area, but the project is now essentially dead.
First Wind of Massachusetts is one of several companies queued up for so much space on the grid in the coming years that no one else can fit, Tudan told the paper. Three of Maine's largest utilities -- Bangor Hydro-Electric Co., Central Maine Power and Maine Public Service -- have plans to lay more lines, but they wouldn't be complete until at least 2011.
Jerry Tudan of Peregrine Technologies in Harpswell had secured funding for the 17-megawatt boiler and was ready to seek permitting when he was told by ISO-New England that the Stetson Mountain wind farm project had registered earlier and had maxed out access to the grid, the Bangor Daily News reported. The boiler would have brought about 45 full-time jobs to the area, but the project is now essentially dead.
First Wind of Massachusetts is one of several companies queued up for so much space on the grid in the coming years that no one else can fit, Tudan told the paper. Three of Maine's largest utilities -- Bangor Hydro-Electric Co., Central Maine Power and Maine Public Service -- have plans to lay more lines, but they wouldn't be complete until at least 2011.
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