ENERGY

The Department of Energy will help fund upgrades at two electrical substations and a multi-day battery storage project.

Mike Knowland, ISO-NE’s manager of forecast and scheduling, said the winter is the busiest time for the grid, but the summer can strain it, too — especially during heat waves or hurricanes, which are expected this year.

Through a tri-state partnership with Rhode Island and Connecticut, Massachusetts and its neighbors are planning to coordinate their selections for a combined 6,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy capacity.

This week on The Rundown, panelists discuss the aftermath of racist student bullying, the development of clean energy infrastructure, and more from the NEPM newsroom and the NENC.

Eversource is building the country's first gas utility-led networked geothermal system in Framingham. Environmentalists hope it can be a model for other gas utilities to wean themselves off of fossil fuels.

In a first for Massachusetts, the offshore wind farm is now generating 68 megawatts, enough to power 30,000 homes. On Thursday the Sierra Club hosted a celebration in Hyannis and encouraged supporters to keep advocating for offshore wind.

The new report says that up to $1 billion of investment may be needed each year, to move toward a reliable grid that can handle the region's future electrical needs

On that cold, clear night, Sam Lovejoy got a ride from the communal farm where he lived to the Montague Plains, where Northeast Utilities had erected a 500-foot weather tower to gather data for two proposed nuclear power plants.

In a test Tuesday, shortly before midnight, Vineyard Wind sent about five megawatts of power ashore in Barnstable from a single turbine, according to project officials.

Top Massachusetts senators were saddened by their colleagues' public remarks.