A federal judge in Springfield has ruled in favor of a company building a link from here to this green power source. The 146-mile New England Clean Energy Connect project will bring 1,200 megawatts of clean Canadian hydroelectricity to New England ratepayers over 20 years, according to a February news release issued by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. The federal court building in Springfield. This week, U.S. District Judge Mark G. Mastroianni ruled that federal antitrust laws don’t apply while letting state-level claims stand. Avangrid lays out the “friction” including other court cases and it accuses NextEra of misleading Maine voters in two referendums.