Thousands of Granite Staters were still without power Wednesday morning as crews continue to clean up downed trees and lines from strong winds.Winds have calmed, but gusts topping 50 mph for several hours Tuesday caused a significant amount of damage. View the latest outage numbers in these maps:Eversource Liberty Utilities New Hampshire Electric Co-op Unitil Downed lines were reported throughout the state. At the peak, tens of thousands of customers were without electricity. Weather alertsPower restoration efforts are underway, but it will take some time. All power is expected to be back on by midnight Wednesday night or sometime early Thursday morning. Some help is on the way, too. Almost 100 extra crews are coming in from other states and Canada.Eversource officials said they have hundreds of crews across the state dealing with significant outages in every region of New Hampshire.POWER OUTAGE INFORMATIONIf the power goes out, you are encouraged to call your electricity prov
Thousands of Granite Staters were still without power Tuesday evening as crews worked to clean up downed trees and lines from strong winds.The worst of the wind had passed by the evening, but not before a trail of damage scattered across the state. Almost 14,000 Eversource customers remained in the dark.View the latest outage numbers in these maps:Eversource Liberty Utilities New Hampshire Electric Co-op Unitil We ve seen winds gust up to 55 mph, and that, combined with the bitter cold, makes for really tough restoration conditions, said Alec O Meara, of Unitil.The winds made it difficult for crews to extend their bucket trucks safely. At the height of the storm, Unitil had nearly 6,000 customers without power, and while the bulk of them were restored by noon, the utility said it remained a very fluid situation. We expect that people may lose power, get that power back, may lose it again, but as far as we re concerned, this storm is not over, O Meara said.Downed lines were re
Ice, slush and snow made for treacherous conditions Tuesday morning on New Hampshire s roads, but the situation improved as the day went on.Numerous spinouts and crashes were reported early in the morning. Along I-89, freezing rain led to icy conditions that lasted for hours. Plows worked overnight to clear the roads, and by morning, rain mixed with freezing rain created a slushy mix that had to be cleared.There were concerns that with ground temperatures below freezing, the rain would freeze on contact, creating black ice conditions. But temperatures continued to warm up as the morning progressed, lessening that concern, although many sections of the highway still were slow-going.In Claremont, public works crews pretreated the roads Monday, anticipating that snow would also help absorb the freezing rain. While the snow never arrived, officials said the cleanup was going well. We elected to come in this morning early and plow and treat the roads as they were, which turns out to
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AchiEVe Toolkit seeks to accelerate switch to electric vehicles
Resource provides state and local policy models to bolster access, equity, and infrastructure for green transportation.
Katherine Stainken of Plug In America presents on the new AchiEVe Toolkit, which offers a variety of model policies from all over America that are working toward electrifying the transportation sector.
Here on Martha’s Vineyard, the electric vehicle (EV) revolution is in full swing. With towns on-Island already working toward building EV charging stations and switching over their municipal vehicle fleets to all-electric, and the Vineyard Transit Authority well on its way to electrifying its buses, it’s clear that momentum is building around these initiatives.