Infrastructure
In A Win For CMP, Maine Utility Regulators Approve 145-Mile Transmission Line
Maine’s top energy regulators handed a win to Central Maine Power Thursday in its bid to build a controversial power line through western Maine.
Read More‘It Has Not Been Fun’ — CMP Transmission Project Divides Western Maine Communities
To get to the backwoods homestead where Duane Hanson started his family four decades ago — deep timber territory, 16 miles from the Canadian border — you have to snowmobile sometimes more than 8 miles in from Spencer Road in Jackman. Eagles and other raptors patrol the air above.
Read MoreIn Connecticut, The Costs And Benefits Of Shared Solar Are Tough To Calculate
Renewable energy projects have been growing across New England in recent years. And while offshore wind and grid-scale solar have gotten lots of the attention — a smaller, more community-oriented way of getting power has been steadily taking hold: “shared clean energy.”
Read MoreHistoric Willimantic, Connecticut To Demolish Rough Reputation
Two grand hotels on historic Main Street of Willimantic, Connecticut, hosted movers and shakers from New York and Boston during the golden age of train travel. The hotels fell into disrepair when travelers took to the highways. Cheap rooms, cheap heroin and social services drew addicts, sex workers and the unemployed. A plan to demolish the buildings may force the town to reconcile its grand history and troubled past.
Read MoreCities Don’t Always Tell You When There’s Sewage In The River. A New Bill Would Change That
Gabby Queenan stands on a small lookout point by the Charles River. Behind her, a few joggers brave the cold and cars whiz by on Memorial Drive. She points out the Harvard University athletic fields across the water and the University Boathouse a few hundred yards downriver.
Read MoreThe Challenges Of Bringing Broadband To Vermont’s Hills And Hollows
The promise of modern communications has bypassed many people and many rural communities in Vermont. And once again, the Legislature and the governor are promising to do more to deliver broadband to underserved areas.
Read MoreTolls Are A Familiar, And Unpopular, Road For Connecticut
It was 1983. Toll booths in Connecticut had already experienced decades of problems like accidents and traffic jams.
Read MoreState Official Went Roaming Around Vermont To Test Cell Coverage Claims
A Vermont Department of Public Service employee drove more than 6,000 miles around the state this fall to test the adequacy of wireless coverage. What he found is now part of a detailed challenge before the Federal Communications Commission that officials hope will bring federal dollars into the state to improve the wireless network.
Read MoreWhat Did 2.3 Million Gallons Of Molasses Do To Boston Harbor?
The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 is the stuff of legends. It started with a hiss, a boom and a low rumble that eyewitnesses likened to an earthquake. Then a 15-foot wave tore through the streets at 35 miles per hour, on Jan. 15.
Read MoreVagaries Of The Energy Market: A Boom In Renewables Leads To Higher Rates For Co-op
A boom in renewable energy around New England has led to higher rates for a small Vermont utility. The reason has to do with the declining value of an energy commodity know as “renewable energy credits.”
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