“Everything is built out to serve a couple days of peak energy each year,” said Vickash Mohanka, director of the Massachusetts chapter of the Sierra Club. “Everybody’s bills are paying for those peaks, and I think we need to see a lot more progress in flattening that consumption.” Energy efficiency and renewable energy progress can also mean cheaper … Continue reading “Cutting clean energy won't lower New England utility bills, advocates say”
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“New England is no different from the rest of the country, where we’re projecting [electric] load growth, and we’re seeing the grid not keep up,” Jeremy McDiarmid, managing director at Advanced Energy United, told Canary Media. The DOE funding comes as Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island have banded together to coordinate their bidding processes for … Continue reading “New England grid gets $389M boost to help plug in offshore wind”
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Two cold regions in the U.S. are getting a massive infusion of funds to swap fossil-fueled furnaces, boilers, and water heaters for heat pumps. In late July, the initiatives — one based in New England, the other in Alaska — were among the 25 projects selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a share of $4.3 billion … Continue reading “New England and Alaska are about to deploy a lot more heat pumps”