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- Shrinking natural gas reserves complicate Maine’s efforts to expand service in state (4/29/14)
PORTLAND, Maine — Natural gas reserves in the U.S. are at an 11-year low, which has national energy analysts concerned and sets a backdrop in Maine for a series of precedent-setting decisions about expanding pipeline capacity for the fuel used to generate heat and electricity.
- Regulators (CT) tighten electricity-supplier rules (4/18/14)
Third-party electricity suppliers will have to fully disclose to customers their contract terms, conditions and rates, under an interim decision filed Thursday by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.
- Hoping to lower costs, Worcester signs pact with new energy supplier (4/7/14)
WORCESTER — The city is expected to save nearly $600,000 on its electricity bills with a three-year contract signed with a New Jersey-based energy supplier.
- PUC report says PSNH should sell its plants and the public should pay (4/2/14)
CONCORD — Public Service of New Hampshire should sell off its remaining power plants, and all electricity customers in the state should pay to recover the losses PSNH would incur in such a divestiture, according to a report by the staff of the Public Utilities Commission.
- RI Sound wind farm could provide power to Long Island, Deepwater says (3/26/14)
Deepwater Wind has submitted a bid to the Long Island Power Authority to supply power from its proposed offshore wind farm in Rhode Island Sound.
- CT Senate passes consumer protections, but advocates balk (4/29/14)
The Connecticut Senate Tuesday unanimously passed consumer protections for electric customers that advocacy groups say are inadequate and should be strengthened once the bill comes before the House of Representatives.
- Restart of East Millinocket mill delayed as firms clash on electricity agreement (4/16/14)
EAST MILLINOCKET, Maine — Negotiations between two companies over electricity sales that would help restart a local paper mill have devolved into finger-pointing and delayed indefinitely the mill’s resumption of production, officials said Wednesday.
- Hydropower plan is raising alarms (4/7/14)
Proposed state legislation that would bring large amounts of hydropower to Massachusetts from Canada could crash the regional power market and kill off other needed energy-generating resources, according to some environmental advocates.
- Consumer protections promised, not yet delivered in CT (3/31/14)
Consumers' groups delivered a reminder to legislators Monday about their high expectations for still-developing legislation that leaders promise will protect the public against bait-and-switch marketing by third-party electric suppliers
- Wesleyan fires up microgrid (3/11/14)
Wesleyan University in Middletown powered up the state's first microgrid under Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's program designed to help keep electricity flowing during emergencies