Massachusetts lawmakers have settled into their winter recess, but Senate President Stanley Rosenberg says they are continuing to discuss a deal to raise caps on solar power and enacting a bill during informal sessions that run through December is not out of the question.
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Natural gas customers throughout New England got an early holiday present as National Grid and Eversource announced that while gas prices will seasonally increase this winter, they will be down compared with last year.
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In an effort to help facilitate the state's goal of developing 1,600 megawatts of solar power by 2020, the Senate voted Thursday to raise the cap on the amount of solar power that can be sold back to the grid by consumers.
In front of a room full of solar industry officials, Massachusetts Secretary of the Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Matthew Beaton said Thursday that the state cannot “kick the can” down the road by simply raising the amount of solar that utility companies are required to incorporate into the electrical grid, but must come up with long-term solutions that take into account the ratepayers as well.
Wind power has always had a blustery outlook in Massachusetts. With a dense population and lower wind speeds compared with flat-plain states, the Bay State was never going to become the Wind Farm State.