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By Michael Kuser BOSTON — Massachusetts’ $2,500 rebates are increasing electric vehicle sales, and state officials are preparing for the shift in demand now, the state’s Department of Energy Resources said Thursday. “We do have a goal for 300,000 electric vehicles to be registered in the state by 2025,” DOER...

By Michael Kuser BOSTON — New England’s transition to a clean energy future may depend more on new transmission lines from Canada than on new or expanded natural gas pipeline capacity, panelists said at a regional energy conference last week. Infrastructure Panel (left to right): Donald Jessome, Transmission Developers Inc.;...

By Michael Kuser BOSTON — The transmission projects proposed to bring renewable energy to New England all promise fixed-cost contracts, hundreds of jobs, big cuts in CO2 emissions, and millions in consumers savings and tax revenues. Another packed house at Friday's Restructuring Roundtable | © RTO Insider How to choose?...

By Michael Brooks The nine states comprising the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative have agreed to accelerate reductions in power sector carbon dioxide emissions by lowering the cap-and-trade program’s annual allowances by 30% over 10 years. The changes to the program, announced Wednesday, also include the addition of an Emissions Containment...

By Michael Kuser FERC on Monday denied requests by two Massachusetts municipalities for a stay of its January approval of the Atlantic Bridge Project, a $452 million expansion and upgrade of existing pipeline networks in New York and New England (CP16-9-001; CP16-9-004). The two Boston-area communities — the town of...

By Michael Kuser Massachusetts regulators have issued new, stricter limits on greenhouse gas emissions from the state’s fossil fuel power plants and ordered utilities to buy at least 16% of their electricity from clean energy sources in 2018. The regulations, announced Aug. 11 in response to a 2016 court order,...

By Michael Kuser Hydro-Québec and several partners on Thursday submitted six separate proposals to meet Massachusetts’ call for 9.45 TWh a year of renewable generation, with one proposal alone meeting nearly the entire energy requirement. The solicitation is a collaborative effort by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources and the...

By Michael Kuser Massachusetts officials said Friday the state’s electric distribution utilities must procure a combined 200 MWh of energy storage by Jan. 1, 2020 — an unambitious goal to some observers. Although the Department of Energy Resources’ (DOER) announcement called the 200 MWh “an aspirational” target, some industry stakeholders...

By Michael Kuser BOSTON — Massachusetts faces a big question in its plan to add 1,600 MW of offshore wind by 2027: What’s the best way to get the power to shore? The state, which is expected to issue a request for proposals by the end of the month for...

By William Opalka Massachusetts legislators last week passed a bill that seeks to remove barriers to electric vehicle ownership and allows utilities to invest in charging infrastructure. Gov. Charlie Baker is expected to sign the bill, which moved through the legislature last year but was left out of an omnibus...