Governor Charlie Baker is making a big bet on Northern Pass.
The Baker administration and reps for the state’s three big electric utilities — Eversource, National Grid, and Unitil — just picked Eversource’s Northern Pass power line to deliver enough clean energy to power more than 1 million homes from Hydro-Quebec’s dams in Canada. It’s not lost on the critics that Eversource played a key role in making the decision that steered these contracts to its own project, but state officials insist this was an arm’s length transaction.
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