![]() ![]() (Boston Globe)ĬLIMATE: Maine’s state climatologist says climate change is the main reason every season over the last century has seen more precipitation. Boston-based rental car company Zipcar plans to double its electric vehicle fleet this year, including in Boston and New York City.Federal funds will help five Pennsylvania school districts to purchase 120 school buses powered with clean energy.Massachusetts regulators kick off an inquiry to examine rate affordability for low-to-moderate-income bill payers and whether other models could reduce the energy burden.The president and chief executive officer of United Illuminating says Connecticut’s regulators are creating a hostile environment that is delaying current projects and limiting future investment appetite.OFFSHORE WIND: A Rhode Island senator proposes a new federal bill to clarify and streamline the offshore wind development pipeline process. Power utility Public Service Enterprise Group raised its five-year regulated capital spending plan for clean energy and grid projects to $21 billion. Our Electric Highways Study coauthored in partnership with transportation analytics organizations CALSTART, RMI, Geotab, and Stable Auto forecasts the future of fast-charging along highway corridors in Massachusetts and New York, providing a first-of-its-kind blueprint for powering the EV transition in the U.S.New York’s governor describes her vision for the state’s clean energy transition in her annual State of the State address, but some stakeholders say the plans need to better incorporate equity for nearby communities.()įOSSIL FUELS: PJM Interconnection wants Talen Energy to postpone the planned decommissioning of two units at a 840 MW coal, oil and gas-fired Maryland power plant, citing pending transmission upgrades. With snow in the forecast, worries increase for the thousands of customers without power in New York’s Jefferson County and the immediate region.(PowerOutage.US, Connecticut Public Radio, Delaware County Daily Times) Power outages across the Northeast are now down to around 85,000 as residents begin recovering from flooding and other related emergencies.(WCVB)īUILDINGS: In her annual speech, Boston’s mayor also announced a new program to ban new city-owned buildings from using fossil fuels. For this, UKPN needed a solution which would automatically generate the ‘maps’ customers were requesting, sending results in a matter of minutes.GEOTHERMAL: Boston’s mayor briefly mentions a major new utility project in her State of the City speech: the city’s first networked geothermal heating and cooling system, to be developed by National Grid in the Franklin Field neighborhood. The company felt this would improve customer service and reduce the number of asset strikes. Instead it wanted to respond to each enquiry online, making the process much quicker. UKPN wanted to move away from this more traditional way of providing asset plans via print. However, this way of operating was creating huge backlogs, which meant that the team often had to work on weekends and evenings to supply customers with the information they needed in an appropriate timeframe. Due to the sheer number of customer requests, not only was the printing machine one of the most important pieces of technology in the office, but it also was one person’s job to fold the printed plans for their entire shift. Both teams were large, employing up to seven people at any one time. UKPN had two plan provision departments, both of which were responsible for answering customer requests and printing out plans of UKPN’s underground network. I n 2019, UKPN was receiving up to 70,000 enquiries per month through LSB UD, which is a 250 percent increase year on year since it first became a Member. ![]()
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