National Grid

Two major utilities have terminated their contracts to buy power from the proposed wind farm in Nantucket Sound, saying project managers had missed a crucial deadline.

Power has been restored across downtown Providence after a squirrel got into equipment at an electric substation causing an outage that darkened city hall, federal and state courthouses, and businesses with thousands of workers. Traffic lights were also out knocked out by Tuesday's outage, and fire crews had to respond to alarms throughout downtown, including in buildings where people were trapped

National Grid is announcing rate increases up to 37% more than a customer's typical bill. NStar customers may be in for similar increases as well. NStar spokesman Mike Durand tells WBSM News with more coal-fired power plants across the region closing, the demand for natural gas is quite high, but the infrastructure needs serious updates to meet the demand...

Many Massachusetts households are going to see their electric bills shoot up 37 percent this winter. State regulators have approved a 37 percent increase for National Grid household customers that would mean an average of $33 per month more for the typical residential customer...

The state's highest court has reduced penalties imposed against two electric utilities by Massachusetts regulators for their poor responses to a pair of 2011 storms that left hundreds of thousands of customers without power for days. The Department of Public Utilities fined National Grid $18...

The state's highest court has heard arguments from three major utilities seeking to overturn record penalties stemming from their response to two major storms in 2011. The state Department of Public Utilities fined National Grid $18.7 million for Tropical Storm Irene and a rare October snowstorm...

Utility workers in Massachusetts and Rhode Island are close to going on strike.

Mass. Congressman William Keating says NSTAR needs to be more transparent when it comes to communicating with the general public after major storms.  Speaking on WBSM's "More Than Just Talk" program on Thursday, Keating said he beleives the public wants more information from its utility company, especially in emergencies. ...

The weather outside is certainly frightful, and with this weather brings power outages. We have a current map of the National Grid outages from around the Southcoast and the rest of Massachusetts.

State energy regulators have fined three Massachusetts utilities nearly $25 million for ``systematic and fundamental failures'' in their response to two major storms in 2011.       The penalties were announced Tuesday by the Department of Public Utilities after a yearlong investigation.  ...