Mild weather, weak demand and low average natural gas prices sent June's wholesale power price to under $20 per megawatt-hour, ISO New England reported Wednesday.
The board of Kinder Morgan, the parent company of the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (TGP), has voted to move forward with a gas pipeline expansion project from New York to Massachusetts.
Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday filed procurement legislation to boost the state's supply of hydropower, a goal he says will increase electricity reliability, help grow an alternative to coal and oil power generation, and enable the state to meet emissions reduction goals of its Global Warming Solutions Act.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down Obama administration efforts to rein in air pollution from power plants, saying the Environmental Protection Agency had improperly failed to consider costs when assessing the appropriateness of its regulations.
Environmentalists are questioning the findings of a study funded by a Kinder Morgan subsidiary that found jobs and energy savings would accrue from a pipeline the company hopes to build.
Analyzing a controversial pipeline that would bring Pennsylvanian natural gas into New Hampshire and Massachusetts, the Beacon Hill Institute found it would bring substantial benefits in construction jobs and lower energy costs to Massachusetts.
Find a need and fill it. Find a product and improve it. Add value and make money doing it. That's Richard Domaleski's strategy for the company he founded in 2012, Worcester-based Mansfield Holdings Group LLC.