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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...

By Michael Kuser WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — State and regional officials last week updated the Environmental Business Council of New England (EBCNE) on the rapid progress of renewable energy development across the region. EBCNE President Daniel Moon welcomes regional state energy officials to update his members at the Massachusetts Division of...

By Michael Kuser HARTFORD, Conn. — New England regulators are struggling to deal with how rapidly public policy is transforming the region’s wholesale electricity markets, state officials said Monday at the New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners’ (NECPUC) 72nd annual symposium. As if to drive home the point about...

By Michael Kuser Maine regulators on Friday suspended hearings on Central Maine Power’s proposal to bring Canadian hydropower to the New England grid via a 145-mile transmission line across the state. The move by the Maine Public Utilities Commission poses a significant setback for the Avangrid subsidiary’s New England Clean...

FERC on Thursday approved Emera Maine’s proposal to provide discounted transmission service to two ReEnergy biomass plants in northern Maine (ER18-2123, ER18-2124). The commission’s Sept. 27 order also found that a protest from Maine Gov. Paul LePage lay outside its jurisdiction. LePage alleged that Emera would recover the cost of...

By Michael Kuser BOSTON — This year’s legislative sessions in New England produced clean energy developments ranging from Connecticut’s “most important energy bill” in seven years, to Massachusetts taking “baby steps,” to Rhode Island taking what might turn out to be a “regrettable pause.” Vermont even passed a bill requiring...

CAPE NEDDICK, Maine — The future of the grid, electric vehicles, high costs, and the tension between state and federal jurisdiction were among the topics discussed at the New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners’ (NECPUC) 71st annual symposium last week. Katz | © RTO Insider New England faces “some...