The 25-year, fixed-price contract will enable MMWEC to resell the power at cost to 17 of its member municipal utilities.

"This contract brings competitively priced energy from the Hancock Wind project to the MMWEC power portfolio and to the customers of our municipal utilities,” says MMWEC chief executive Ronald C. DeCurzio. “It also brings a valuable measure of diversity and price stability to the MMWEC resource mix at a time when the region’s reliance on natural gas is of concern.”

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