On October 6 Maine’s regulators told Central Maine Power it could not have a temporary rate increase while its full rate case runs. Separately, a September 30 date for the Department of Energy Resources to file the replacement for net energy billing passed without a filing, according to the department’s own page. ...
For twenty years the story north of the border has been simple: Québec makes far more electricity than it needs and sells the surplus south. This month the story ran in reverse, and it landed in federal court in Boston. ...
Maine spent more than three and a half years building a process to make its two big utilities plan the electric grid in public. The first plans arrived last winter, and on July 31, 2026 the Public Utilities Commission closed the cycle by finding both of them adequate. ...
Maine has spent five years and two procurements trying to get wind power out of Aroostook County. On August 25 it named winners. The part that matters is not the wind farm. ...
New Hampshire spent $230,000 asking whether it could quit the New England power grid. The answer that came back in July was no — and the most interesting reason has nothing to do with New Hampshire. ...
Maine’s Public Utilities Commission has closed bidding on a procurement seeking at least 1,200 megawatts of renewable generation and the transmission to move it — the headline item in this month’s scan of energy news across Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. ...
Climate graphic of the week: Oceans set heat records for more than 365 days in a row ...
via the UK’s IFoA - Earth’s climate may be more sensitive than we thought ...
Daily sea surface temperatures continue to rise, click thru for chart. ...
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