King Pine – designed to use Vestas V136 turbines – would interconnect to the New England grid at Emera Maine’s proposed 345kV Hammond substation. Full commercial operation is slated for 2020.

Pattern Energy, Pattern Development’s public yieldco, would have first crack at buying the enormous wind farm. King Pine would be the largest project in Pattern Energy’s portfolio by far, at nearly twice the size of the 324MW Broadview wind farm under construction in New Mexico.

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