EXHIBIT 10.5
SECOND AMENDMENT TO TRANSMISSION SERVICE AGREEMENT AND CONSENT TO ASSIGNMENT

This SECOND AMENDMENT TO TRANSMISSION SERVICE AGREEMENT AND CONSENT TO
ASSIGNMENT is executed as of the 25th day of June, 2020 (the “Second Amendment”)
by and among Massachusetts Electric Company and Nantucket Electric Company d/b/a
National Grid, a Massachusetts corporation (“Distribution Company”), Central
Maine Power Company, a Maine corporation (“Owner”), and NECEC Transmission LLC,
a Delaware limited liability company (“Assignee”). Distribution Company, Owner
and Assignee are referred to herein individually as a “Party” and collectively
as the “Parties”.
RECITALS
        A. Owner and Distribution Company executed that certain Transmission
Service Agreement dated as of June 13, 2018, as amended by that First Amendment
to Transmission Service Agreement dated as of October 9, 2018 (the “Agreement”).
        B. Owner has informed Distribution Company that it intends to transfer
to Assignee all of its assets and interests associated with the NECEC
Transmission Line (as defined in the Agreement), including all of its rights,
title, interest and obligations in, to and under the Agreement, the Additional
TSAs, the HQUS TSA and the Additional HQUS TSA.
        C. Owner and Distribution Company desire to further amend the provisions
of the Agreement as more fully set forth herein and to provide for Distribution
Company to consent to the assignment of the Agreement to Assignee and to extend
certain deadlines in the Agreement.
AGREEMENT
        NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and the mutual
covenants and promises contained herein, the Parties do hereby agree as follows:
1. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings
assigned to them in the Agreement.
2. In the introductory paragraphs, the reference to “(“Owner”)” shall be changed
to “(together with its successors and permitted assigns, “Owner”)”.
3. Article 1 “Definitions” shall be modified as follows:
(i)by adding the following definition of “Additional Credit Support”:
“Additional Credit Support” means a guaranty of the Owner’s payment obligations
under the Agreement issued by Avangrid, Inc. in a form reasonably satisfactory
to the Distribution Company.
(ii)by adding the following definition of “Assignment Effective Date”:

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“Assignment Effective Date” means the date on which Central Maine Power Company
assigns to NECEC Transmission LLC all of its rights, title, interest and
obligations in, to and under this Agreement.
and
(iii) by restating the definition of “Construction Phase” as follows:
“Construction Phase” means the period commencing upon the receipt of the FERC
Authorization with respect to this Agreement or such other date to which the
Parties shall mutually agree in writing, and ending on the day immediately
preceding the Commercial Operation Date or upon the earlier termination of this
Agreement pursuant to its terms (regardless of whether or not any such day is a
Business Day).

4.  In Section 3.3.1(a) “Failure to Obtain Regulatory Approval and FERC
Authorizations”:
(i) clause (ii) is restated as follows:
(ii) the Regulatory Approval is denied or is not received by December 15, 2020
(such date, the “Regulatory Approval Termination Outside Date”),
and
(ii)  clause (iv) is restated as follows:
(iv) the FERC Authorization with respect to the Interconnection Agreement with
ISO-NE is denied or is not received by November 1, 2020 (unless the
Interconnection Agreement with ISO-NE has been executed following the pro forma
Schedule 25 Elective Transmission Upgrade Interconnection Agreement of the
ISO-NE Open Access Transmission Tariff) or the FERC Authorization with respect
to the Transmission Operating Agreement is not received by September 1, 2022,
5. Section 8.1 “Transmission Service Payments” is modified by substituting
“0.091665%” for “0.18333%”.
6. Section 14.2 “Owner Defaults” shall be modified by adding the following at
the end thereof:
(j) At any time on or after five (5) Business Days after the Assignment
Effective Date, the Additional Credit Support or any provision thereof shall
cease to be in full force and effect (except as expressly provided therein) or
Avangrid, Inc. or its successor or permitted assign thereunder (i) shall be in
default or breach of any of its obligations thereunder, (ii) shall have
repudiated any provision thereof, or (iii) shall be subject to any Insolvency
Event.
7. Section 16.1 “Owner Security” shall be restated as follows:
Section 16.1 Owner Security.

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(a) In order to secure Owner’s obligations under this Agreement in the period
beginning on the Effective Date and continuing through and including the date
that all of Owner’s obligations under this Agreement are satisfied, Owner shall
be required to post Credit Support (i) prior to the Commercial Operation Date,
prior to the Assignment Effective Date in the amount of $4,983,480 and on and
after the Assignment Effective Date in the amount of $9,555,480 and (ii) on and
after the Commercial Operation Date, in the amount of $4,983,480 (“Owner
Security”). $2,491,740 of the Owner Security shall be provided to Distribution
Company within three (3) Business Days following the Execution Date; $2,491,740
of the Owner Security shall be provided to Distribution Company within fifteen
(15) Business Days after receipt of the Regulatory Approval; and $4,572,000 of
the Owner Security shall be provided to Distribution Company within three (3)
Business Days after the Assignment Effective Date. So long as no Owner Default
has occurred and is continuing, no later than the date that is fifteen (15)
Business Days after the Commercial Operation Date, Distribution Company shall
return to Owner the amount of the Owner Security that exceeds $4,983,480.
(b) If at any time during the Term of this Agreement, the amount of Credit
Support is reduced as a result of Distribution Company’s draw upon such Credit
Support, Owner shall replenish such Credit Support to the total amount required
under this Section 16.1 within five (5) Business Days of that draw, provided
that any replenishment obligation shall be subject to the limitations on total
liability set forth in Section 14.7.
(c) The Additional Credit Support shall be provided to the Distribution Company
within five (5) Business Days after the Assignment Effective Date.
(d) Any Cash provided by Owner as Credit Support under this Agreement shall be
held in an account selected by Distribution Company in its reasonable
discretion. Interest shall accrue on that Cash deposit at the daily Federal
Funds Rate and shall be remitted to Owner upon written request to Distribution
Company, with such request not more often than on a quarterly basis, and
Distribution Company shall remit such accrued interest to the Owner within a
reasonable time following receipt of such request. Owner agrees to comply with
the commercially reasonable requirements of Distribution Company in connection
with the receipt and retention of any Cash provided as Credit Support under this
Agreement.
(e) Any unused Credit Support or Additional Credit Support provided under this
Agreement shall be returned to Owner only after any such Credit Support has been
used to satisfy any outstanding obligations of Owner in existence at the time of
the expiration or termination of this Agreement. Provided such obligations have
been satisfied, such Credit Support or Additional Credit Support shall be
returned to Owner within thirty (30) days after the expiration or earlier
termination of this Agreement.
8. Assignee affirms the representations and warranties of Owner contained in
Section 21.1 “Mutual Representations and Warranties” and Section 21.2
“Additional Representations and Warranties of Owner” as of the Assignment
Effective Date and as of the Commercial Operation Date as though it were the
Owner, with the exception that (i) Assignee is a Delaware limited liability
company, and (ii) as of the Assignment Effective Date, Assignee will acquire,
pursuant to certain agreements between Owner and Assignee, the real property
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construction and operation of the NECEC Transmission Line, and the
interconnection of the NECEC Transmission Line with (A) the Québec Line (other
than real property rights to be held by TransÉnergie) and (B) the Delivery Point
(other than real property rights related to the AC Upgrades and the CCIS
Capacity Upgrades) in full and final form with all options or contingencies
having been exercised.
9. Upon satisfaction of the conditions in Section 22.1(c) of the Agreement by
Owner and Assignee, Distribution Company consents to the assignment of the
Agreement by Owner to Assignee, effective as of the Assignment Effective Date.
Upon satisfaction of the conditions in Section 22.1(c) of the Agreement by Owner
and Assignee, provided that (a) an Owner Default shall not have occurred and be
continuing and (b) Assignee expressly assumes as of the Assignment Effective
Date all unsatisfied obligations and liabilities of Owner arising under the
Agreement prior to, on or after the Assignment Effective Date, and without
further action by Distribution Company, Owner shall be fully, finally and
unconditionally released and forever discharged from any and all liabilities or
obligations arising under the Agreement as of the Assignment Effective Date.
Owner represents and warrants that, as of the date hereof and after due inquiry,
it is not aware of (i) any Owner Default that has occurred and is continuing or
(ii) any event or condition that has occurred and is continuing that, with the
giving of notice or passage of time or both, could become an Owner Default.
10. As of the Assignment Effective Date, the address for notices, billings,
requests, waivers, consents and other communications under the Agreement shall
be changed to:
NECEC Transmission LLC
Attn: Thorn C. Dickinson
One City Center 5th Floor
Portland, Maine, 04101
Facsimile: (207) 629-1165
With a copy to:
NECEC Transmission LLC
Attn: Avangrid Legal Department
162 Canco Road
Portland, Maine 04103
Facsimile: (207) 629-1480
With a further copy to:
Pierce Atwood LLP
Attn: Jared des Rosiers
254 Commercial Street
Portland, Maine 04101
Facsimile: (207) 791-1350

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11. The Agreement as modified by this Second Amendment shall continue in full
force and effect and this Second Amendment shall constitute a part of the
Agreement. All references in the Agreement to itself shall be deemed to be
references to the Agreement as amended hereby and the Agreement as amended
hereby shall be referred to as the “Agreement.”
12. Distribution Company acknowledges receipt of a copy of the amendment to the
HQUS TSA dated as of the date hereof and waives the requirement under Section
5.5.2 of the Agreement that Owner provide Distribution Company a copy of that
proposed amendment to the HQUS TSA not fewer than ten (10) Business Days prior
to the execution thereof.
13. The Parties hereby ratify and confirm all of the provisions of the
Agreement, as amended or modified by this Second Amendment, and agree and
acknowledge that the same, as so amended, remains in full force and effect.
14. This Second Amendment may be signed in one or more counterparts, which,
together, shall constitute a single document. Facsimile signatures hereon or on
any notice or other instrument delivered under this Second Amendment shall have
the same force and effect as original signatures.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties have caused their duly authorized
representatives to execute this Second Amendment on their behalf as of the date
first above written.

MASSACHUSETTS ELECTRIC COMPANY AND NANTUCKET ELECTRIC COMPANY D/B/A NATIONAL
GRID
            

/s/ Stephen McCauley     
Name: Stephen McCauley
Title: Authorized Signatory

CENTRAL MAINE POWER COMPANY     

/s/ Douglas A. Herling     
Name: Douglas A. Herling
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer

/s/ Eric N. Stinneford     
Name: Eric N. Stinneford
Title: Vice President, Controller and Treasurer

NECEC TRANSMISSION LLC     

/s/ Thorn Dickinson     
Name: Thorn Dickinson
Title: CEO & President
          

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