Dive Brief:

• Two Northeast Utilities subsidiaries have finished building a roughly $680 million transmission project in New England.
• The Greater Springfield Reliability Project, which included upgrading 39 miles of transmission lines between Bloomfield, Conn., and Ludlow, Mass., is part of the larger New England East-West Solutions transmission project, which is designed to beef up the grid in southern New England.

Dive Insight:

The Springfield project will reduce transmission bottlenecks while improving reliability. Customers should benefit from fewer outages and lower electric prices from the reduced congestion.

The larger New England East-West project has three other components. A 345-kV segment in Rhode Island is nearly complete. A 345-kV project between Rhode Island and Connecticut is scheduled to be online in late 2015 and a project in central Connecticut is still being studied.