The U.S. Department of Energy has scheduled public meetings on a proposed $3.8 billion power line running 420 miles from Quebec to Connecticut under Lake Champlain, the Hudson River and Long Island Sound, the Associated Press reports.
The Champlain-Hudson Power Express project proposed by Toronto-based Transmission Developers, Inc., would carry up to 2,000 megawatts of hydrolectric and wind energy to the New York metropolitan region. Plans call for completion in 2015.
By burying the cable, the developers hope to avoid the kind of community uproar that scuttled the New York Regional Interconnect plan last year.
The first hearing is Thursday in Bridgeport, Conn., followed by meetings in New York City, Yonkers, Kingston, Albany, Glens Falls and Plattsburgh.
