The Bridal Path & Other Corridors
An interesting letter from Versant on the Northern Maine Transmission and Wind Turbine docket.
There are two primary utilities in Maine: CMP and Versant. Versant’s territory is to the North.
MEPCO is a corporation jointly owned by CMP and Versant. It buys and owns transmission corridors.
One of the corridors it owns is what we have called the MEPCO line. It is greenfield (owned but not developed.) I wrote about it here.
Here’s an example of what it looks like on tax maps. I cobbled together the thing below in a super old school way. This is the town of Corinna, Maine. Their tax database is in PDF form with only lot and map numbers. Their tax maps are also PDFs, and do not list owners. I screenshot the PDFs, put them into an image processing program, and then circled the parcels owned by MEPCO (Maine Electric Power Company) by cross referencing with the tax database. This is tedious and clunky work, and this is the reason it is hard for people to discern where greenfield corridors are. Any thing orange is owned by MEPCO or CMP, based on what I saw in the most recent published town PDFs. Of course, the town tax maps do NOT track easements that may have been acquired through deeds.
Two days ago, this letter from Versant showed up on the Northern Maine Transmission Line 2025-00361 docket. It describes their ownership of the Bridal Path, and their willingness to negotiate joint use. It also says they are not bidding. (But that doesn’t mean subsidiaries such as MEPCO aren’t….my comment.)
This is what the Bridal Path looks like, according to my research.
See below for the MEPCO corporation information. Their website is not resolving, but at one point in time the <head> section of their site in the meta field indicated this:
CMP and Versant are like a Marine Corps recruiter. If their lips are moving they’re lying.