National Grid, one of the world’s largest transmission companies and an energy provider in the Northeast, and Anbaric, a transmission project developer, are joining forces as Green Line Infrastructure Alliance to deliver green and reliable energy to New England.

The alliance reflects the companies’ shared vision to help transform New England’s energy landscape while driving a healthy regional local economy and environment. Together they will deliver a combination of two highly complementary sources of clean, abundant and affordable energy -- onshore wind and hydropower – to the region. The alliance will work to develop large-scale, high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission projects that combine wind and hydropower to address regional energy issues that are critical to policymakers and energy consumers such as rising prices, declining fuel diversity and the need for more renewable energy.

“Our alliance is about more than renewable and clean energy; it’s also about achieving a more diverse and secure supply portfolio in a changing energy landscape,” said Ed Krapels, the founder and head of Anbaric. “We wanted to create the most efficient way to meet the clean energy mandates of New England states and did so through innovative thinking on how to bring wind energy and hydro together into the market.”

“The New England states inevitably will have to address affordable and renewable energy, and we offer a very attractive, cost-effective regional option to it,” stated Stan Blazewicz, vice president of Business Development at National Grid.

Green Line Infrastructure Alliance initially will develop the Maine Green Line – a hybrid land-and-sea HVDC project that will initially transmit 1,000MW (expandable to 2,000MW) of wind from northern Maine, firmed up by imports of hydropower from eastern Canada, via a submarine cable to Massachusetts. Maine-based constructor Cianbro Development Corporation also will be part of this project.

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