Massachusetts
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Batteries
Startup offers low-cost home batteries to Massachusetts residents
The subscription-based approach aims to make it easier and more affordable to get a backup battery in your home. And it might be catching on.By Sarah Shemkus .
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Utilities
Massachusetts bill would end a costly gas pipeline repair program
Utilities say the GSEP program is essential for safety and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but critics contend it costs too much and achieves too little.By Sarah Shemkus .
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Energy equity
Massachusetts lawmakers try new way to kill ‘zombie’ wood power plant
Both chambers passed bills to stymie a key revenue source for the proposed polluting plant, but so far its developer hasn't flinched.By Sarah Shemkus .
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Policy & regulation
Major energy-affordability bill passes Massachusetts Senate
Now the legislature must hammer out the differences between the Senate text and the House version, which includes major cuts to energy-efficiency funding.By Sarah Shemkus .
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Solar
Martha’s Vineyard solar array will cut bills for low-income islanders
A new rooftop solar project offers the first test of a community-benefit model that nonprofit PowerOptions Connect hopes to roll out across the Northeast.By Sarah Shemkus .
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Energy efficiency
Massachusetts Senate preserves energy-efficiency funding in new bill
Earlier this year, the House proposed $1B in cuts to the state’s nation-leading efficiency program. The Senate rejected that idea in a sweeping new energy bill.By Sarah Shemkus .
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Batteries
Tesla offers discounted home batteries in New England VPP push
Households in Massachusetts and Connecticut can get cheap Powerwall leases — so long as they let Tesla monetize the batteries in virtual power plant programs.By Jeff St. John .
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Transmission
Is New England’s new hydropower transmission line paying off?
The flow has been stop and go for the first few months, but the line shows plenty of potential to boost Massachusetts’ renewable energy supply.By Sarah Shemkus .
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Geothermal
Want a job drilling for geothermal? A Northeast training hub is coming.
A worker shortage threatens to hold up America’s buildout of geothermal networks. These groups have a plan to address the problem, starting in Massachusetts.By Sarah Shemkus .
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EV charging
Why is Massachusetts sitting on $64M in EV-charger funding?
Despite the state’s political embrace of EVs, it has built zero chargers nearly four years after receiving federal funds from the Biden administration.
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