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You could call it an electric shock, with energy bills in New Hampshire set to go up — doubling in many cases. On Aug. 1, Liberty Utilities will raise its rates 100% in New Hampshire. Eversource is going up 112%. “You can see maybe justifying a small rate increase, but I heard up to 100% rate hike,” said Anita, who…

Electric grid operators predict there will be a sufficient supply of electricity to meet demand as the hotter months approach, and ISO New England is anticipating that peak demand will come in under last summer’s high if weather conditions are “typical.” Electricity demand on the New England grid topped out last year at 25,801 megawatts during the 6 p.m. hour…

The majority of power customers in Puerto Rico who were left in the dark earlier this week following a massive blackout that affected over a million residents had their electricity restored on Saturday.

A power outage was reported in Boston’s South End on Thursday morning, with hundreds of customers without electricity. The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency reported nearly 500 customers without power at the height of the outage. The outage was originally reported shortly after 1 a.m. in the area of Union Park and Tremont Street. Eversource said the outage was the result…

Puerto Rico residents will see another increase in their electricity bill, even though they already pay twice as much as mainland U.S. customers for unreliable service.

The dismal state of power in Hurricane Ida’s wake is a distressingly familiar scenario for Entergy Corp. Louisiana’s largest electrical utility has grappled with other widespread outages after numerous previous hurricanes.

You may be spending up to 10% of your electric bill every month on appliances you aren’t even using. Here’s how to spot these energy vampires and how to save big bucks on your next power bill.

At least 33 people are dead and dozen dozen more are wounded after a string of tornadoes tore a path from the Deep South to the East Coast on Easter Sunday. The devastation stretches across multiple states, where homes and business were left in ruins. Mississippi was especially hard hit, with damage reported across nearly the entire state.

After a deadly storm system raged across much of the country Sunday and Monday, killing at least 33 people and battering homes and power lines, more than 500,000 people across the South and East coasts are still without electricity, NBC News reports.

The same storm that produced deadly tornadoes across the southeast United States delivers damaging wind to New England on Monday – but just how bad will it be, and what does it mean for our new, COVID-19, #StayAtHome lives? The expected rain all day, although making for slippery roads, has a much lesser impact than it might if New Englanders…

Pacific Gas & Electric began restoring power Thursday to some of the 120,000 people it intentionally blacked out to ease the risk of catastrophic wildfires.

PG&E continues to downsize the scope of its latest round of proactive power shutoffs as weather conditions improved Wednesday.

Italy’s government declared a state of emergency Thursday in flood-ravaged Venice, seeking to release funds to repair the historic lagoon city after it was damaged by the highest tide in 50 years. A cabinet meeting approved a special decree that included 20 million euros ($21.7 million) in immediate financial aid aimed at helping the city recover. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte...

New Hampshire’s congressional delegation is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to level the playing field for producers of biomass energy.

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has inspired millions across the world to stage protests urging leaders to better tackle global warming, has declined an environmental prize, saying “the climate movement does not need any more prizes.” Two fellow climate activists spoke on Thunberg’s behalf at an award ceremony Tuesday in Stockholm for the regional inter-parliamentary Nordic Council’s prizes, reading...

Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, who has inspired millions across the world to stage protests urging leaders to better tackle global warming, has declined an environmental prize, saying “the climate movement does not need any more prizes.” Two fellow climate activists spoke on Thunberg’s behalf at an award ceremony Tuesday in Stockholm for the regional inter-parliamentary Nordic Council’s prizes, reading...

California’s governor declared a statewide emergency with nearly 200,000 people ordered to flee their homes because of wildfires fueled by historic winds, while millions were without electricity after the largest utility cut power in some areas as a precaution to prevent other fires. Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement that officials are deploying “every resource available” to respond to...

Torrential rain that caused flooding and mudslides in towns east of Tokyo left at least 10 people dead and added fresh damage in areas still recovering from recent typhoons, officials said Saturday. Rescue workers found the body of a person who had gone missing in Chiba prefecture after getting caught up in floodwaters while driving. Another person was unaccounted for...