Article: Company bids for biomass contract Plan aims to restart Millinocket mill

MILLINOCKET - Brookfield Renewable Power has bid to supply electricity to the state's utilities from a biomass boiler it hopes to install at its local paper mill, a next step among several needed to restart the mill, a company spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Brookfield submitted the bid for a 20-year contract to the Maine Public Utilities Commission last week and hopes to have negotiations concluded within two months, said Julie Smith-Galvin, the company's spokeswoman.

A signed contract to supply electricity to Bangor Hydro-Electric Co. and Central Maine Power Co. would not guarantee a mill reopening, nor set a timeline for its restart, but it would make finding a partner to run the biomass ...

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