Enable Importation of Canadian Hydro and Wind Generation (EGU Action 2.6)

To the extent that it reduces or does not raise electricity rates to the consumer, high voltage transmission lines should be built to import clean power generated from Canadian hydro and wind sources as a complementary policy to developing non-CO2-emitting generation in New Hampshire. Canada is developing vast new hydro and wind generation resources, which are greater than their local needs. This creates an opportunity for New Hampshire and the entire Northeast to obtain clean power. This could provide new power sources to offset future local and regional growth and facilitate retiring or curtailing the operation of fossil fuel-fired plants in New England. Contracts made for this renewable energy should be developed with consideration for the broader environmental impacts of the power sources as well as the impacts that this imported power would have on the development of in-state renewable resources.