New Brunswick Power will distribute Northern Maine homes and businesses with the energy output generated by the Mars Hill facility.

Mars Hill plant, which was commissioned on 27 March 2007, features 28 turbines with the capacity to generate nearly 1.5MW each.

The four-year deal replaces the PPA set to expire in December of this year.

The prior PPA entailed the electricity being sold to New Brunswick Power and then to ISO-New England.

First Wind currently owns and operates three wind projects in Maine, the Mars Hill project and the 57MW Stetson Wind I and 26MW Stetson Wind II projects near Danforth.