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Rick Conant

Oct 28, 2026

Jeff ThalerMODERATOR
35:16
Well,
35:17
Jeff, I was actually going to start that I've been doing this for around 40 years now.
35:22
and to think that I'm sitting here where the regional planners, the Maine Public Utility Commission, the Office of Public Advocate, and the Natural Resources Council of Maine all agree on this project is amazing.
35:37
And I think it's awesome to see that we're going to get such an accomplishment done in a state where our generating resources are prevalent.
35:48
And this is sort of another evolution.
35:51
When I came into Central Maine Power Company in the mid 80s, we had one tie line to New Brunswick.
35:59
We had only two transmission lines into New Hampshire.

29 MINS LATER

65:24
Why does the line not connect to the main public district? and I And I think the idea is that this procurement was really about adding the generation and connecting NMISA would have been a whole different analysis and transmission.

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