By Amanda Durish Cook NiSource lost money last quarter as the company continues to face costs stemming from a string of gas pipeline explosions in three Massachusetts cities last year. The Indiana-based parent of Northern Indiana Public Service Co. meanwhile continued to replace its coal plants with wind and solar...

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...

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 SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — More than 100 people turned out Wednesday evening at John J. Duggan Academy to protest a Department of Energy Resources proposal to alter the state’s renewable portfolio standard to include biomass plants. About a hundred people outside a DOER hearing in Springfield on June...

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 GROTON, Conn. — As Northeast states continue to expand their clean energy goals, the region faces the prospect that multiple overlapping public policies will create an oversupply of renewable resources at certain periods. CPES and NECA hosted the 2019 New England Energy Conference and Exposition in Groton,...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. In an announcement rich with symbolism, transmission developer Anbaric said it will spend $650 million to build a delivery hub for offshore wind at Brayton Point, the former site of New England’s largest coal-fired plant. Anbaric said it will spend $250 million on a 1,200-MW HVDC...

By Rich Heidorn Jr. NEW YORK — Looking for a place to assemble offshore wind farms on the East Coast? New York officials say their 63 acres at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal could be just the place. For about $300 million, a report for the New York State Energy...

By Michael Kuser After serving a four-year term as chair of the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities, Angela O’Connor became a free agent last month — just like some of the basketball players she knew during her decade helping to market the Boston Celtics. That job had her wearing a...