Energy News for week ending April 22, 2016

Natural Gas/Pipeline

Kinder Morgan shelves $3 billion pipeline project, The Boston Globe

Controversial Natural Gas Pipeline Plan Withdrawn, Hartford Courant

Locals cheer suspension news, The Recorder

Rosenberg: ‘Plan B’ needed after Kinder Morgan scraps pipeline plan, Boston Herald

Vernon Natural Gas Plant Off The Table After Pipeline Project Is Suspended, VPR

Natural gas essential to meet our energy needs, (letter) Cape Cod Times

Augusta natural gas leak nets Summit Natural Gas $250,000 penalty recommendation, Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel

Renewable Energy

Wind Energy Gets Connecticut Printer’s Stamp Of Approval, North American Windpower

Editorial: Siting Solar Projects in Vermont, Valley News

Subsidizing solar power in Maine would cost us each less than $5 a year, Portland Press Herald

Maine passes bill to boost biomass industry, Biomass Magazine

Our energy future will get here – eventually, Foster’s Daily Democrat

Our Opinion: Biomass, solar bills both should be OK’d, Kennebec Journal & Morning Sentinel

Offshore wind better bet than hydro, (opinion) CommonWealth Magazine

New energy study high on hydro, wind power, Sentinel & Enterprise

Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency bill needs support, Foster’s Daily Democrat

Energy Efficiency: So Sensible, It Shines through Hyper-Partisanship, Natural Resources Defense Council

Energy Secretary takes part in RI roundtable, WPRI 12 Eyewitness News

Fuel Cells Will Power a Connecticut Community. Will They Work Elsewhere, Energy Manager Today

Nuclear

Entergy projecting big Vermont Yankee surplus after cleanup, VT Digger

Editorial: Wrong time to relicense Seabrook, Concord Monitor

Improving Pilgrim Station ‘a matter of pride’, WickedLocal Plymouth

Markets/Grid/Policy/Prices/Etc.

Gov. Charlie Baker: Kinder Morgan suspension makes passage of energy bill more urgent, MassLive

Supreme Court rules against state power plant subsidies, The Hill

An Energy Bill in Need of Fixes, New York Times

FERC OKs Changes to ISO-NE Retirement Rules, RTO Insider

Energy bill gives DOE greater power to fight grid hackers, The Hill

Protesters target National Grid in Massachusetts, 4 arrested, RI Future

Sudbury: Realtors protest Eversource power line project, MetroWest Daily News

Concerns raised over us of RGGI funds, Bloomberg BNA

New Hampshire co-op rolls out slate of peak management programs, Utility Drive

Harvard Law School Group Pushes Virtual Power Plants in Massachusetts, Microgrid Knowledge

‘Graceful transition’: ISO-NE’s CEO on how wholesale markets can ease decarbonization, Utility Drive

Column: Energy divide may lead to more, not less, price volatility, Gloucester Times

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