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This story was first published by Energy News Network . A battery storage development is replacing a fossil-fuel-burning power plant in western Massachusetts, providing a model that supporters say could be emulated elsewhere.

Thanks to a state program incentivizing cleaner peak power, a developer is building a 45 MW grid battery at the site of a fossil power plant shut down in…

OCEAN CITY, N.J. - Known as "America's Greatest Family Resort," this beachside city now has a new distinction: It has become the epicenter of opposition to wind energy projects off New Jersey and the East Coast. Residents of Ocean City and surrounding Cape May County, helped by an outside group opposed to renewable energy, are mobilizing to stop Ocean Wind 1, a proposal to build up to 98 wind turbines the size of skyscrapers off the New Jersey coast, which could power half a milli...

Too often in an effort to save Mother Nature, we forget about human nature. Building utility-scale solar and wind farms are less a matter of the physical sciences than the social sciences. Even environmentalists can be opposed to solar and wind farms.

Ocean City, N.J. ― Known as "America's Greatest Family Resort," this beachside city now has a new distinction: It has become the epicenter of opposition to wind energy projects off New Jersey and the...

Many in Ocean City oppose a major wind farm to be built off their shores, and hope to create a template for blocking similar projects along the coast.

One of offshore wind’s biggest challenges is a century-old law known as the Jones Act.

Using VR, community members responded favourably to the concept of wind turbines.

Project developers have maintained for years that the $4 billion project they are building about 15 miles south of Martha's Vineyard would start to generate...

The first clean wind power generated by the Vineyard Wind 1 project is expected to flow onto the regional grid by mid-October and the first-in-the-nation offshore wind project should be fully operational by this time next year.