The Boston electric subsidiary of Hartford-based Northeast Utilities will begin construction of a 345 kilovolt transmission line to serve southeastern Massachusetts and Cape Cod.
NStar Electric will start the $106 million construction on the 26-mile project in two weeks and complete the transmission line next summer.
The project is designed to increase electricity reliability in the region and decrease the reliance on the area’s fossil fuel power plants by moving power move efficiently around using the transmission line.
Utilities such as NStar and Berlin-based Connecticut Light & Power generate nearly all of their revenue from their distribution and transmission infrastructure, on which the state and federal governments set a return on equity for the companies.
Both NStar and CL&P are subsidiaries of Northeast Utilities, which merged with NStar’s parent company in April and is now dual headquartered in Boston and Hartford.
