Glastonbury Hunt Club, town agree to another five-year lease on Winter Hill...
The town might be interested in putting a wind turbine or a telecommunications tower on the property in the future, according to Johnson. "There is always a wind up there," Johnson said. "We are...
View ArticleElectricity market: Pricing change can mean free power
The fact that renewable energy producers pay people to buy their energy, albeit rarely, raises questions about the subsidies and tax credits they enjoy. "It looks like we are at the point now where the...
View ArticleConnecticut unions, environmentalists want more wind power
The forum’s focus on offshore wind projects does not include support of any wind turbines being built in Long Island Sound, said John Humphries, an organizer with the Connecticut Roundtable on Climate...
View ArticleProject to bring Canadian hydropower to New England gets federal approval
CONCORD, N.H. – The Department of Energy on Thursday awarded a key permit for a transmission project that would carry hydropower from Canada to more than a million homes in southern New England. The...
View ArticleNew England panelists talk ‘trust’ in power project siting
BOSTON – Developing trust is vital for the project siting process, according to panelists speaking at Raab Associates’ 156th New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable last week. “The thing that...
View ArticleISO-NE proposal would drive state-sponsored renewables into wholesale markets
Dive Brief: ISO New England has proposed tariff changes aimed accommodating state-sponsored renewable resources in the region’s Forward Capacity Market (FCM), while still finding a way to guard its...
View ArticleISO study warns of precarious energy future; Most scenarios envision...
A new study by the operator of the region’s power grid warns that without additional natural gas pipeline capacity New England will face a precarious energy future, where emergency actions such as...
View ArticleLawmakers from 9 states vow to put a price on carbon
Dive Brief: Lawmakers in nine states have formed a coalition to strengthen their efforts at tackling climate issues at the state level, seeking to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions while...
View ArticleNECA panelists talk carbon pricing, Northern Pass
AUBURNDALE, Mass. – Speakers at the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association Renewable Energy Conference on Feb. 1 discussed the merits and viability of different methods to achieve New England’s...
View ArticleMalloy, DEEP align on doubling clean-energy target
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and the state’s environmental policy agency are both calling for the amount of clean and renewable power consumed in the state to double between 2020 and 2030. The Department of...
View ArticleWind power proposals surpass natural gas plans
The manager of New England’s power grid says for the first time ever, there are more proposals for new wind power projects than there are for natural gas. But getting those wind turbines up and running...
View ArticleRegion’s power grid manager gets OK for renewable-fossil fuel exchange auction
New England has gotten federal approval for a first-in-the-nation type of power supply auction. It’ll let new renewable energy projects take over for old fossil fuel plants on the grid. Once a year,...
View ArticleEversource Energy proposing wind farm off Connecticut coast
Eversource Energy and a Danish company are proposing a 200-megawatt wind farm that would be built 65 miles off the coast of New London in federal waters. Eversource and Orsted announced plans for the...
View ArticleThree wind power projects submitted to Connecticut DEEP
A request for renewable energy proposals by the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has yielded three bids for generating power with offshore wind farms. The deadline for submitting...
View ArticleDEEP details three offshore wind proposals
A day after two offshore wind developers announced proposals for Connecticut, state regulators released details of three total projects submitted this week, including one from New Bedford, Mass.-based...
View ArticleNew England faces ‘horror story’ of expensive power
New England is struggling to keep the lights on as it pursues aggressive clean energy goals, a dilemma that is so troublesome that the region’s power grid operator warns of blackouts if something...
View ArticleProposed wind farms off of New London worry local fishermen
Fishermen were quick to react to the possibility of another wind farm off the New England coast. Last week, Ørsted and Eversource announced a joint venture and has submitted a bid to build...
View ArticleCold snap tested reliability of region’s power grid and arguments against...
As Maine and New England shivered through last winter’s historic cold spell, the region’s electric system faced an unprecedented prospect: rolling blackouts. Several troubling circumstances were...
View ArticleNew London, state leaders push offshore wind development as Mass., R.I....
Massachusetts and Rhode Island on Wednesday tapped two offshore wind developers who also remain in the hunt to provide offshore wind power to Connecticut, where local officials and energy companies are...
View ArticleSkeptical about wind power economics
David Collins’ column “Pros and cons of $15 million dollar investment at State Pier to accommodate offshore wind projects” (June 1), was slanted toward skepticism and Benjamin Kail’s article “Region’s...
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