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THE CYBERATTACK last week on Energy Services Group LLC has affected Eversource’s ability to process transactions in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/BRENT LEWIN

Cyberattack may have affected some New England utility customers

NEW YORK - Eversource Energy, owner of utilities in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New Hampshire, said it has notified customers who may have been affected...
THE COUNTRY'S power grid is starting to show strain in the face of a record breaking cold snap. / BLOOMBERG FILE PHOTO/STEVE HOCKSTEIN

America’s power grid shows signs of strain amid deep freeze

NEW YORK - America’s power grid is starting to show signs of fatigue as the nation grapples with a record-breaking cold snap. In the Midwest, some...

Private equity snapping up unloved plants in tough power market

SAN FRANCISCO - Private equity firms better positioned to weather the prolonged slump in U.S. electricity markets are snapping up generators from risk-averse power...
WHEN SHERRI ANNE ANDRE sat on a platform between trees near the Spectra Energy gas compressor station in Burrillville in May to protest the company's expansion of the station, she was part of a growing national movement to stop the development of projects that support the continued use of fossil fuels. / COURTESY NICK KATKEVICH

Cuffed for a pipeline: The new blitz by Keystone-savvy activists

NEW YORK - The battle to build natural gas pipelines in the post-Keystone XL world has moved from the hearing room into the streets. Developers...
NATIONAL GRID said 63,718 of its more than 480,000 customers in Rhode Island were still without power early Thursday. / COURTESY NATIONAL GRID

Blackouts drag on as utilities customers’ patience wears thin

NEW YORK - U.S. utilities from Virginia to Maine are adding angry customers to their inventory of storm damage as more than 1.72 million...
Fire department officials attend to a downed power pole in Princeton, N.J. / BLOOMBERG NEWS PHOTO JOHN MCCORRY

Utilities restore electricity to 57% of customers after Irene

NEW YORK - Utilities restored power in less than a week to about 57 percent of the customers who lost electricity after Hurricane Irene...
A downed power pole sits at Wiggins Street and Jefferson Road in Princeton, N.J. on Aug. 28, 2011.  / BLOOMBERG NEW PHOTO/JOHN MCCORRY

Utilities push to restore power after brush with Hurricane Irene

NEW YORK - Utility workers restored power to U.S. homes and businesses after Hurricane Irene moved north to Canada, leaving a trail of damage...

Northeast Utilities to buy Nstar for $4.17 billion of stock, adding...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Northeast Utilities, New England’s largest utility owner, agreed to buy Boston utility owner Nstar for $4.17 billion of stock, adding cash...
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