Gloucester’s wind turbines move out

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WIND

• The decommissioning of two wind turbines and the complicated emotional response in Gloucester, Massachusetts, reveals how clean energy projects can become part of the fabric of a community, writes Canary reporter Sarah Shemkus. (Canary Media)

• A Delaware court upholds legislation that overruled a local zoning decision to block construction of an electrical substation for U.S .Wind to move power from its offshore wind farm onto the regional power grid. (Delaware Business Now)

• A report by the Union of Concerned Scientists analyzes Vineyard Wind in Massachusetts and Revolution Wind in Rhode Island to find that offshore wind will significantly lower the risk of power outages in New England during winter storms. (Concord Monitor)

STORAGE

• Brooklyn SolarWorks installed a 19.6 kW home battery storage system with a solar canopy in New York City, marking the first time residential storage has been available in the city. (Electrek)

BIOFUELS

• Rhode Island residents organize against a proposal by QSS Biosolids to develop a sludge pyrolysis facility to incinerate material from a Woonsocket bio-sludge plant. (ecoRI)

GRID

• The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s decision to lower the rate of return that utilities can receive for transmission projects could result in $900 million in refunds to New England ratepayers and more than $100 million in annual savings. (WWLP)

OVERSIGHT

• Energy experts question Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee’s nominee to a state utility regulatory board who has an impressive business resume but no apparent experience in energy policy, law, or science. (Providence Business News)

WORKFORCE

• Vermont lawmakers advance legislation to launch a program to train professional or volunteer ​“energy navigators” to make residents’ homes more energy efficient. (Vermont Biz)

POLITICS

• New Jersey Democrats target two-term Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. for taking more than $100,000 in contributions from utilities and related political action committees over the course of his career. (Gothamist)

• New York climate advocates rally against Gov. Kathy Hochul’s push to delay the state’s ambitious 2019 law to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030 and at least 85% by 2050. (WROC)

DATA CENTERS

• A Republican New York state senator and chair of a local county board seeking the GOP nomination for governor say a proposed data center campus is a ​“local control issue” that should not be blocked by state officials. (Batavian)

CLIMATE

• A community meeting about flood prevention in a Massachusetts peninsula community leads to a conversation about retreat from rising seas as the state mulls a voluntary buyout program. (CommonWealth Beacon)

• Climate change is challenging U.S. maple syrup producers and has led to a spike in production in Maine as producers implement new technologies and deal with rising demand in a shifting market. (Bangor Daily News)

COMMENTARY

• Holtec’s proposal to restart more than 50-year-old reactors at New York’s Indian Point nuclear plant represents a perfect storm of deregulation, denial, and misinformation about nuclear power’s potential, writes a member of a group fighting Holtec’s reopening of a Michigan nuclear power plant. (City Limits)