Electrification made accessible

This roundup of energy news headlines comes from our Northeast Energy News newsletter. Sign up to get it in your inbox each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning.

ELECTRIFICATION

• A nonprofit has helped repair, decarbonize, and weatherize thousands of homes in Baltimore and Providence, Rhode Island, helping residents lower their utility bills and unlock healthier alternatives to fossil fuel heating and appliances. (Canary Media)

TRANSMISSION

• Maryland landowners ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling letting utility PSEG enter private property for surveying work related to its Piedmont Reliability Project. (Baltimore Sun)

STORAGE

• Residents of a New York town received fear-mongering mailers falsely claiming they were in the ​“evacuation zone” of a proposed battery storage system, should it catch fire, marking the latest move in a contentious campaign against the project. (Times Union)
• New York awards $13 million to 15 projects aimed at advancing long-duration and other advanced battery energy storage technology. (news release)

COAL

• A fire has been burning under a mountain of coal waste in eastern Pennsylvania for months now, exacerbating residents’ distrust in the coal industry that has both created jobs and brought environmental havoc to the area. (PennLive)

SOLAR

• The Maine Board of Environmental Protection fines a Bristol solar development nearly $94,000 over erosion and water pollution violations, which the 5-MW project has since resolved. (Maine Public)
• Howard County, Maryland’s executive vetoes a county council bill that would’ve required an extra review for solar projects on farmland, saying it would put more than a dozen proposed projects at risk in the county. (WMAR)

ALTERNATIVE FUELS

• New York awards $10 million to five alternative fuel projects, and announces it’s accepting applications for another $27 million round of funding. (news release)