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National Grid is keeping up with the high demands on the power grid while still trying to work toward a clean energy future. They’re making great efforts to create a more sustainable power grid that will support more renewable energies that will benefit both the individual customers and the community as a whole.

Thomas Edison’s pioneering incandescent light bulb, which cast illumination by heating a filament until it glowed, is fading into history. New federal rules governing the energy efficiency of lighting systems went into full effect Tuesday, effectively ending the sale and manufacture of bulbs that trace their origin to an 1880 Edison patent. The big winners are likely to be more...

As temperatures continue to rise, so may your energy bill. Follow these practical tips to save money while staying cool and comfortable this summer.

It’s a scorcher, which means the temperature isn’t the only thing spiking– your energy costs could be, too.

Water containing a radioactive material has leaked for a second time from a nuclear plant near Minneapolis and the plant will be shut down, but there is no danger to the public.

The company said it notified the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the state on Nov. 22, the day after it confirmed the leak, which came from a pipe between two buildings.

A nuclear power plant in Georgia has begun splitting atoms in one of its two new reactors, Georgia Power said Monday, a key step toward reaching commercial operation at the first new nuclear reactors built from scratch in decades in the United States.

On March 1, several communities in Massachusetts rolled out municipal aggregation programs aimed at providing more affordable and renewable electricity. In Westwood, electricity customers were notified about a program called Westwood Community Choice Electricity. It’s an alternative to current electricity supply options that they were automatically enrolled in. “Westwood has decided to engage for the town an aggregation program, which…

The lights can finally be turned off at a Massachusetts school where they’d been on for more than a year. Starting Aug. 24, 2021, a software system failure prevented the roughly 7,000 lights at Minnechaug Regional High School in Wilbraham from being turned off, NBC News reported. The issue cost the public school thousands of dollars a month, with the…

nergy Department put the gas stove debate on the front burner again Wednesday by proposing new efficiency standards for consumer cooking appliances.

A Massachusetts high school that’s been unable to turn off its roughly 7,000 lights found itself as the butt of a joke on “Saturday Night Live” this week. The lights at Minnechaug Regional High School haven’t been turned off since Aug. 24, 2021 after lighting system software failed, NBC News reported last week. The issue has cost the public school…

Blame it on the pandemic and “supply chain problems,” says the school district’s assistant superintendent of finance.

The significant advance in technology has been decades in the making.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm discusses the breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where for the first time a fusion energy reaction was created in a laboratory.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm discusses the breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where for the first time a fusion energy reaction was created in a laboratory.

Officials in Chelsea, Massachusetts, are bringing back a program that provides up to $400 a month to low-income families to help pay their bills amid rising energy costs. Chelsea Eats launched in November 2020 as the city refocused its efforts from distributing food during the pandemic to providing direct financial support to residents so that they could buy food and…

People in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood are concerned about rising costs to heat their homes this winter. Beginning this month, many Massachusetts residents are paying more for energy. National Grid’s winter price hikes went into effect Tuesday, meaning the average monthly electric bill will go up by 64%, and the average monthly natural gas bill will increase by 24%. Eversource said…

It’s cold outside, which means your energy bills will start heating up. Here are five easy tricks to cool off your utility bills this winter.

More than two weeks after the Massachusetts primary, the candidates for governor have kept a low profile — with the latest Suffolk/NBC Boston poll showing Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey more than 20 points ahead of her Republican opponent, former state Rep. Geoff Diehl. Both candidates have different ideas about how, as governor, they would handle a key issue facing…

Diesel and heating oil supplies in the Northeast are more than 50% below the recent average, raising concerns that an extreme weather event could cause supply disruptions, federal officials said. Fuel supplies are lower than normal across the country for a variety of reasons, including the war in Ukraine. But it’s the worst in the Northeast. Diesel fuel and heating…