Vick Mohanka

Oct 31, 2024 | commonwealthbeacon.org | Vick Mohanka

THE PIPELINE COMPANY Enbridge is exploring what it calls Project Maple, a major expansion of its fracked gas pipeline that runs from New Jersey to Massachusetts. The Canadian fossil fuel corporation erroneously claims New England, New Jersey, and New York need more gas for homes and buildings and to generate electricity.

Dec 23, 2023 | commonwealthbeacon.org | Vick Mohanka

MASSACHUSETTS HAS ENTERED a new energy age, one for the people, not shareholder profits. For years, community members and local climate activists, including Sierra Club, have argued that the state’s sprawling, pricey “natural” gas distribution system — used to heat and power our homes and buildings — is dangerous for the health of our communities and incompatible with our climate goals. Now, in a landmark order on the future of gas, Gov.

Oct 4, 2023 | commonwealthmagazine.org | Travis Kavulla |Vick Mohanka |Louis Antonellis

NERVOUS ABOUT rising prices for offshore wind power, the states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut are banding together to solicit larger wind farm projects that hopefully will come with lower price tags. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced the three-state partnership at an offshore wind conference in Boston Wednesday morning. Individually, the three states were planning to solicit as much as 6,000 megawatts of offshore wind power in January; now they will solicit bids together.

Oct 2, 2023 | commonwealthmagazine.org | Travis Kavulla |Vick Mohanka |Louis Antonellis

WITH NO COMMENT, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities on Monday gave its blessing to an agreement terminating offshore wind contracts between the state's three utilities and SouthCoast Wind.

Sep 16, 2023 | commonwealthmagazine.org | Travis Kavulla |Vick Mohanka |Louis Antonellis |Kristen Gowin

THIS PAST YEAR has not been kind to Massachusetts electric ratepayers-at least some of them. For customers who do not shop and choose their own energy provider, the average residential rate hike in National Grid's service area was more than $110 per month this past winter , a 64 percent increase. In , rates spiked 42 percent.