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capacity in five major New England power plants: The MMWEC-owned capacity and energy from these plants is resold at MMWEC’s cost to 28 Massachusetts municipal utilities, the Pascoag (Rhode Island) Utility District and six utilities in Vermont. MMWEC also purchases power in bulk through bilateral contracts with power suppliers and resells the power at cost to participating utilities. Wyman Unit No. 4 is a 619-megawatt No. 2 oil-fired generating plant located in Yarmouth, Maine. Unit No. 4, which began operation in 1978, is the newest and largest unit in the four-unit Wyman Station. The principal owner and operator of Wyman Station is FPL Energy Wyman, LLC, an indirect subsidiary of Florida-based FPL Group, Inc. FPL Energy Wyman owns approximately 61.8% of Wyman Unit No. 4. The remaining 38.2 percent of the unit is owned by 11 other utilities, including MMWEC, which owns approximately 3.7 percent, or about 22.7 megawatt of the unit’s capacity. MMWEC’s Wyman Project Participants include 12 Massachusetts municipal utilities based in the communities of Boylston, Holyoke, Hudson, Hull, Littleton, Marblehead, Middleborough, Middleton, North Attleborough, Shrewsbury, Wakefield, and Westfield.
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