Massachusetts

  • Courts Overturns Trump Shutdown of Vineyard Offshore Wind Project

    A federal court in Massachusetts handed the Trump administration a fourth reversal Jan. 27 in its bid to shut down East Coast offshore wind projects, allowing Vineyard Wind to resume construction on its 95% complete turbine array. Judge Brian E. Murphy of the U.S. District Court late Tuesday afternoon allowed Vineyard Wind to resume all activities…

  • Innovation: Bidirectional Car Chargers Could Power Both Vehicles & the Grid

    Massachusetts is testing bidirectional chargers that turn parked EVs into backup energy sources. From yaleclimateconnections.org While an electric vehicle is sitting idle in a garage or parking lot, its battery could still be hard at work feeding energy to homes or the power grid. Ackerman: “It really just makes that battery useful in another way…