Energy News for week ending December 4, 2015

Natural Gas/Pipeline

• FERC asked to evaluate all New England pipeline proposals at once, MassLive.com
• Natural gas pipeline encounters skepticism in Windham, The Union Leader
• Billionaire Kinder’s Pipeline Giant Plunges as Junk Status Looms, Bloomberg
• Sanders Says He Opposes Kinder Morgan Pipeline, New Hampshire Public Radio
• Details of Kinder Morgan pipeline route revealed in federal application, Mass Live
• Numbers tell a lot about proposed NED pipeline project, The Keene Sentinel
• Anti-pipeline activists, Spectra react to energy study, Wicked Local West Roxbury
• Pipeline route redesigned for Boylston, Worcester Telegram

Renewable Energy

• Why Investors Can’t Ignore Climate Change, Chief Investment Officer
• Spurned in Maine, wind farm to float in Scotland, Press Herald
• 5 drivers making 100% renewables possible, Utility Dive
• Engineers consider liquid salt to generate power, Science News for Students
• Newton adding solar power, Wicked Local Newton
• Madison utility company proposes 4-megawatt solar project, Mainebiz
• Grant links solar power with horse power, Foster’s Daily Democrat
• Eugene Robinson: Clean energy gathers steam, New Haven Register
• SolarCity to employ 100 in Milford, CT Post
• Shumlin says solar development should be done on a Vermont scale ,Vermont Biz
• Tech Titans Launch Breakthrough Energy Coalition, TechNewsWorld

Energy Efficiency

• NASA Uses Lessons From Space To Design An Efficient Building, Rhode Island Public Radio
• Green Award winners announced, Wicked Local Medford

Nuclear

• With the loss of Vermont Yankee’s charitable donations organizations seek new ways to raise funds, Vermont Biz
• Government, Entergy work to restore areas still economically affected by Vermont Yankee closing, The Keene Sentinel
• Goldstein: Now Is Not The Time To Abandon Nuclear Power, WBUR
• The Curious Politics of Global Warming and Nuclear Power, Huffington Post
• Security, storage concerns linger at closed nuclear sites, The Boston Globe

Markets/Grid/Policy/Prices/Etc.

• Proposed New Power Plant to Take Wetlands and Water, ecoRI news
• Grid operator confident about this winter, CommonWealth Magazine
• Oxford power plant clears environmental hurdle, CT Post
• National Grid lowers natural gas prices for heating customers, The Boston Globe
• Northern Pass project faces power line path lease questions, The Union Leader
• Northern Pass Facing Challenges over Siting, RTO Insider
• Commission: Energy Plan Will Require ‘Sacrifice’, The Vermont Standard
• Utilities Reach Net Metering Cap On Customer-Generated Power, Vermont Public Radio
• Hydropower firms, power-line developers push energy bill, The Boston Globe