Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court removed a major obstacle to the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) transmission line Thursday, ruling that a proposed voter initiative on the project is unconstitutional. Ruling on a challenge by Central Maine Power and parent Avangrid Networks, the court said the ballot question improperly intruded...

Officials from New England’s six states on Friday described their efforts to advance renewable energy goals despite the coronavirus pandemic. "We’re really lucky to live in this region where so many states are pushing for clean energy," said Catherine Finneran, vice president for sustainability and environmental affairs at Eversource Energy,...

A webinar last week to discuss strategies for meeting Maine’s renewable portfolio standards and emission-reduction targets presented a stark reminder of just how challenging decarbonizing the entire power sector and curtailing global climate change will be. The Environmental & Energy Technology Council of Maine (E2Tech) on Wednesday invited four panelists...

AUBURNDALE, Mass. — If 50 years ago you prophesied that school buses would someday help a utility stabilize the grid, people might have suggested that you had been reading too much Tom Wolfe or drinking the electric Kool-Aid on the bus with Ken Kesey. Same goes for heat pumps that...

By Michael Kuser ISO-NE CEO Gordon van Welie said Thursday that implementing a carbon price in New England’s wholesale power markets would be "simple" but that state officials need to signal their support before the RTO can act. Van Welie made his comments in his response to a Feb. 19...

By Michael Kuser Avangrid said this week it expects to begin construction this year on the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) project to bring Canadian hydropower to Massachusetts despite a potential referendum on the project in Maine. "We still expect to start construction in the third quarter of 2020...

BOSTON — New chief utility regulators from Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine last week shared their visions of grid modernization and resource adequacy at Raab Associates’ 163rd New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable. The regulators were followed by a panel of all three offshore wind developers that bid into the latest solicitation...

PORTLAND, Maine — ISO-NE on Thursday continued its decade-long tradition of taking its show on the road — this time to Maine — to hear from the region’s residents and share with them the latest activities at the RTO. ISO-NE Vice President Anne George addresses the RTO's quarterly Consumer Liaison...

By Michael Kuser BOSTON — Fifty power industry participants gathered at the law offices of Brown Rudnick on Thursday to hear the Northeast Clean Energy Council (NECEC) provide updates on new energy legislation — or a lack thereof — in all six New England states. The discussion illustrated the uneven...