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- Grid operator: Summer power enough in New England (4/29/14)
HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) - Energy efficiency will help ensure enough electricity is available in New England even during an extended heat wave, the region's electric grid operator said Tuesday.
- 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.
- ‘Heartbleed’ bug could affect power plants, natural gas pipelines and water treatment facilities (4/9/14)
The so-called “Heartbleed” security bug that researchers revealed this week has businesses scrambling to update servers and infrastructure. One of the challenges is that the bug is so far-reaching — it affects everything from web mail to banks to social media to critical industrial infrastructure.
- 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.
- Northeast Wind Summit comes to Maine, though welcome mat’s not fully out (3/26/14)
SOUTH PORTLAND — Stephen Nolet knows that Gov. Paul LePage is hostile to wind energy. But Nolet, senior director for innovation and technology at TPI Composites in Warwick, R.I., was in Maine on Tuesday at a sold-out, regional conference that focused on how businesses can supply the growing wind power industry in the Northeast
- Parties try new strategies in battle over idled Maine paper mill (4/24/14)
Cate Street Capital and Brookfield Renewable turn to new public relations approaches to express their positions on the Great Northern Paper mill in Millinocket.
- CMP and solar energy advocates clash over what’s the smartest grid for Maine (4/18/14)
PORTLAND, Maine — Central Maine Power Co. says it needs to change a rate structure that no longer reflects its costs for delivering electricity. But some of the utility’s largest customers have countered that the proposed rate structure change would penalize them for generating their own power, using solar panels or other technologies.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.