Transmission Line: RFI released
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Transmission Line: RFI released
The preliminary step to a new procurement was posted this afternoon.
View details here: Docket 2024-00099
The document released is a five page Request for Information (RFI).
Responses requested by June 21 2024
Comment requested from bidders as well as: “Comment from other interested entities is also encouraged.” (i.e. environmental non-profits, renewable energy non-profits, cultural non-profits.)
“Demonstration of project viability within a commercially reasonable time
frame”
The RFI acknowledges the changes to the eminent domain law:
The impact of recent amendments to 35-A M.R.S. § 3136, Maine’s statute
governing the use of eminent domain by transmission and distribution
utilities, regarding the taking of parcels of real estate that are 200 acres or
less in size (P.L. 2023 c. 644);
Download it here or below.
