MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — With permits to build an underwater and underground power line from the Canadian border to New York City all but fully in hand, the developer is turning its attention to a similar proposal for a 1,000-megawatt power line that would run down Lake Champlain and then across Vermont to feed the New England electric grid.

The developers of the $1.2 billion New England Clean Power Link have purchased the land where the two cables would enter Lake Champlain near the Canadian border in Alburgh and where they would come out of the water 100 miles south in Benson before running about 50 miles east to Ludlow.