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National Grid to invest $35B in Massachusetts, New York grids
National Grid plans to invest $75 billion over the next five years across the company’s service territory in the U.K. and United States, with about half of it going to U.S. operations. The company will dedicate approximately $35 billion to US energy system improvements in Massachusetts and New... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Bronzeville-Microgrid-300x193.jpg)
Chicago gains one of nation’s first neighborhood-scale community microgrids
Backed by grant funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and led by ComEd, the Bronzeville Community Microgrid (BCM) entered service this month, becoming one of the first of its kind in the United States. While microgrids are nothing new, the BCM is one of the first neighborhood-scale com... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/shutterstock_1691494060-1-200x300.jpg)
DOE awards $10M grant to Pioneer Energy for zero-emission oil production technology
A new creation by Pioneer Energy could eliminate routine flaring and nearly all methane and conventional emissions from oil and gas production sites if commercialized, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). That prompted the department’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/shutterstock_1715173993-300x172.jpg)
Department of Energy authorizes projects to back weatherization assistance with Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding
Thanks to $25 million in support from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the U.S. Department of Energy recently announced that 13 projects will expand efforts to lower home energy bills for low-income households. They will do so through the support of the Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP)... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Palms-Substation-May-2024-300x225.jpg)
New Entergy Texas substation pushes toward June completion date
Entergy Texas recently announced that work is nearing completion on a new distribution substation near Surfside Drive that will help Bolivar Peninsula residents with reliability beginning this June. Electrical demand on the peninsula has been steadily growing, according to the company. This prom... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Mobile-Transformer_Avangrid-300x186.jpg)
Avangrid buys new mobile transformer to more quickly resolve outages
Avangrid recently acquired a mobile transformer that allows the company to quickly resolve outages in the event of a damaged transformer. The new 168 megavolt-ampere (MVA) mobile transformer was custom-made for Avangrid and purchased from Hitachi Energy. It can be deployed and installed within a ... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/shutterstock_1825517441-300x132.jpg)
American Transmission Systems installs new insulators in Northeast Ohio
American Transmission Systems has installed approximately 250 new insulators along a 22-mile section of a transmission line in northeast Ohio. The new horizontal post insulators were installed on the 69-kilovolt transmission line, which runs southwest from a substation in Boardman Township to a s... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/bill_quinlan_cape_cod_solution-300x199.jpg)
Eversource, Avangrid mark completion of grid upgrade on Cape Cod
Officials from Avangrid and Eversource were on hand this week to commemorate the completion of the Cape Cod Solution Phase 1 grid upgrade in Bourne, Mass. by participating in a ribbon cutting ceremony. The grid update is part of the New England Wind 1 offshore wind project, allowing for the inte... Read More »![](https://dailyenergyinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/shutterstock_2344445393-300x200.jpg)