Judges to Weigh NextEra’s Refusal to Accommodate Power Line

NextEra Energy plans to ask an appeals court Tuesday to roll back a federal order requiring the company to upgrade equipment to accommodate a competitor’s $1 billion electric transmission line.

The oral arguments scheduled before the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Washington are only the latest plot point in a saga around the Avangrid transmission project, called the New England Clean Energy Connect project.

Avangrid argues NextEra is required, by open access transmission and interconnection rules under the Federal Power Act, to replace its circuit breaker at its ...