electricity

Nearly two dozen Southcoast communities have officially entered a power purchasing agreement for the area's electricity consumers. The Community Electricity Aggregation Program has reached an agreement with Con Ed Solutions to provide electricity to the 23 communities for two years at a fixed rate of 9...

Nantucket residents will be experiencing power outages on Tuesday due to a house move.

The company that installed new LED streetlights in New Bedford now has a base of operations in the city. Siemens opened it's new office in the Bank of America building on Pleasant Street Thursday afternoon. Mayor Jon Mitchell says the City has entered into a 20-year energy management contract with the company which will reduce the city's consumption of electricity and save millions of dollars... R

A planned outage will take place in the Sconticut Neck Rd. area of Fairhaven on Tuesday.

Air conditioners are whirring across the Southcoast, meaning higher electricity bills each month. But Eversource's Mike Durand says not necessarily, as the company is announcing a reduction in electricity supply rates resulting in cost-savings to customers...

Eversource says the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities has approved new supply rates for residential customers.

Eversource officials say an equipment failure was the cause of an early Wednesday morning power outage that left roughly 1,000 New Bedford customers without power.

A power outage that, at its peak, left an estimated 700 customers in the dark is believed to have been caused by the failure of an underground cable.

The City of New Bedford may soon join a host of other Southcoast communities in shopping for better utility rates. In light of recent rate hikes from companies like NStar, municipalities like Fall River and New Bedford are banding together with smaller towns to form a municipal aggregation, pooling their purchasing power and getting better rates from other suppliers...

In high-powered storms such as this one, power outages are almost inevitable. Strong wind gusts and heavy snow can bring down trees and tree limbs, taking out power lines. NStar spokesman Mike Durand says restoration efforts could take several days...