Offshore
On the morning ferry, the turbines are simply on the horizon now
Normalization is its own milestone. What it means when a fleet stops being news and starts being infrastructure.
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Vineyard Wind settles in, and the grid takes notes.
The first utility-scale offshore wind farm to deliver power in the United States has stopped being a first. It is becoming part of the day's quiet arithmetic on the New England grid, and that transition is the story.
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Stories
Every story is dated and tied to its sources. This is the running record of what we have published.
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Sept. 242026
AnalysisVineyard Wind settles in, and the grid takes notes
First power is old news. The useful questions now are operational: how the project rides winter cold snaps, what its output does to the evening ramp, and what it proves for the rounds that follow.
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Sept. 232026
GridISO New England sets the winter watch list, and the margin stays thin
The grid operator's seasonal outlook is part forecast, part warning label, and it hints at what a cold snap could mean for your winter power bill.
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Sept. 222026
SolarTriple-decker rooftops are the state's quiet solar frontier
Most of Boston's housing is multifamily, and most of its roofs are rented to no one. A close look at why owner-occupied three-deckers are where rooftop solar actually pencils out in the city.
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Sept. 212026
PolicyHow to read a Mass DPU docket without losing your afternoon
Filings, intervenors, briefing schedules: a field guide to following a heating electrification docket at the Department of Public Utilities.
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Sept. 192026
BuildingsHeat pumps on the porch: what Boston landlords keep asking
Installer queues, tenant billing, and the old boiler in the basement. The practical questions from small landlords, answered in plain language.
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Sept. 182026
GridWhat the interconnection queue's battery surge does and does not tell you
Battery projects now make up a large share of new proposals in ISO-NE's queue. Queue position is a promise, not a project. Here is how to read both.
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Sept. 172026
BuildingsBoston tallies building emissions, and the retrofit queue moves slowly
The city's building emissions ordinance has made thousands of large buildings report their carbon every year.
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Sept. 162026
SolarSMART, block by block: how Massachusetts prices a rooftop solar project
The state's main solar incentive pays on production, and the rate it pays depends on which block your project lands in.
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Sept. 152026
PolicyMass Save drafts the next three years of efficiency spending
The state's efficiency program runs on three-year plans approved by utility regulators.
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Sept. 142026
WindNew Bedford's terminal stages the fleet, and the region watches the cargo
The country's first purpose-built offshore wind port is a working piece of infrastructure and a bet.
State of the Grid
Updated each morning from public records: what is generating, what is waiting in line, and what the season demands.
- Offshore windVineyard Wind has delivered power to the regional grid since early 2024, and at last public report was moving from first power toward full operation. Its roughly 800 megawatts are the region's first working proof at scale.
- PipelineMassachusetts keeps a statutory target of 5.6 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2027. Later rounds are working through contracts, supply chains, and federal permits at their own pace.
- StorageBattery projects make up a growing share of ISO-NE's interconnection queue, a marked shift from just a few years ago. Proposed is not built; we track the difference.
- WinterThe region's tightest supply months remain the test. Planners watch gas deliverability, imports, and demand response on the coldest evenings.
Figures here are rounded and stated conservatively. When a number is not in a primary document, we say so in the entry.
Solar & Wind, Briefly
Two standing briefs, kept short. The full stories run in the list above.
Buildings
The evening streetscape is quietly changing its hardware
Heat pumps, weatherization, LED streetlighting. The city's building stock turns over one quiet retrofit at a time.
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About this publication
Boston Renewable Energy is a small independent daily publication covering clean and renewable energy in Boston and Massachusetts: the ISO-NE grid, Department of Public Utilities filings, rooftop and community solar, offshore wind, and the local permitting and incentive machinery that decides what actually gets built. We read the public record and write up what it means for people who live here.
We are not an advocacy shop and not a trade outlet. A grid operator's filing is news here. So is a triple-decker owner's retrofit, done properly.
Our rules
- Primary documents first: ISO-NE filings and operating data, DPU dockets, DOER program pages, project permits.
- Numbers are rounded and hedged unless they come straight from a primary source.
- Illustrative figures are labeled as such, every time, so a sketch is never mistaken for measured data.
- No invented quotes, no anonymous officials who do not exist, no press releases passed off as reporting.
- Corrections run at the top of the entry, dated, with the original text preserved.
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