Maine
BOEM
BOEM's decision paves the way for placement of up to 12 floating turbines with a combined rating of up to 144 MW in a Gulf of Maine research array.
Northeast States Collaborative on Interregional Transmission
Ten East Coast states signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a framework to coordinate interregional transmission planning and development.
WMTW
Maine police are looking for the people who plowed a construction vehicle through a nearly completed community solar farm, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage.
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Top utility commissioners from four New England states emphasized the need for regulatory innovation to preserve affordability amid the clean energy transition at the New England Energy Conference and Exposition.
BOEM
BOEM's environmental assessment of the state of Maine’s request for a lease area where it could place a research array found it would have no significant impact on the environment.
Iberdrola
Iberdrola is moving to acquire the 18.4% stake in Avangrid that it does not already own in a $2.55 billion deal.
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New grid-scale battery storage in Maine would be cheaper than new fossil peaker plants when accounting for societal costs of air pollution and carbon emissions, according to a new report.
BOEM
Federal regulators have finalized their proposed wind energy area in the Gulf of Maine.
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Bribery scandals and concerns over reliability and the pace of decarbonization have caused increasing scrutiny of utilities’ political activities.
Hydro-Québec
With the days of endless cheap hydropower in Québec coming to an end, and the Northeastern U.S. hoping to rapidly scale up intermittent renewables, the two regions may be forced to fundamentally reconsider the role of hydropower on the grid.
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