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- Guilty conviction for Pilgrim protesters won’t quiet questions about plant’s future (3/23/14)
The Cape Downwinders trial may be over, but the stressful relationship between the Pilgrim nuclear reactor’s owner and its critics on Cape Cod won’t be healed anytime soon.
- Aquarion’s CT users to share in $29M IRS refund
Connecticut customers of Aquarion Water Co. will share in an approximately $29 million IRS tax refund, authorities say.
- Pilgrim’s owner pushes for market changes to help keep the nuclear plant open (3/13/14)
A number of Cape Cod protesters trekked to the State House on Monday, calling for the closure of the Pilgrim nuclear power plant. But it’s more likely that the reactor in Plymouth will be done in by market forces — not activism.
- CMP wants Mainers who generate their own power to pay more (3/11/14)
The company says in a rate case that it's trying to cover its service costs, but critics say a higher charge would crush renewable-power investment.
- Court: Maine wind-power venture shouldn’t have been OK’d (3/5/14)
The Maine Public Utilities Commission was wrong to allow the owner of two northern Maine electricity-distribution companies to start a joint venture with a wind power-generating company, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday
- National Grid to build electric cable for Block Island offshore wind farm (3/20/14)
National Grid has agreed to build the submarine transmission cable connecting the five-turbine wind farm planned by Deepwater Wind off Block Island to the mainland power grid, according to documents filed with state regulators.
- CL&P says (mostly) no to tree-trimming halt (3/14/14)
Connecticut Light and Power will not be curtailing most of its more radical tree trimming temporarily as requested earlier this week by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority
- PURA requests temporary tree-trimming halt (3/12/14)
The contentious radical tree trimming by the utility companies that has pitted them and some public officials against environmental advocates and nature enthusiasts is on hold for a bit – sort of
- UI installs Ice Bears to keep energy costs low (3/11/14)
Orange electric utility United Illuminating has purchased two Ice Bear storage systems as part of a pilot project to see how electricity demand can be curtailed
- PURA to hold tree trimming public hearings (3/4/14)
The Public Utilities Regulatory Authority will hold two public hearings in New Britain and Hamden as part of its review of utility tree trimming plans.