This four-year deal replaces a power purchase ageement (PPA) set to expire in December 2011.
The prior PPA entailed the electricity being sold to New Brunswick Power and then to ISO-New England.
The 42MW Mars Hill energy project, which was commissioned in March 2007, features 28 wind turbines each with a generating capacity of 1.5MW.
First Wind currently owns and operates three wind energy projects in Maine – the Mars Hill project and the 57MW Stetson Wind I and 26MW Stetson Wind II projects.
