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Applying AI to planning requires a trove of data, and many power utilities have the operational data necessary to begin the kind of advanced analytics machine learning can provide.
Following a six-month lockout of 1,250 National Grid gas workers and support staff, two United Steelworkers unions have ratified a tentative agreement reached on Jan. 2 that will lead to a full return to work during the week of Jan. 20.
National Grid and Rhode Island state regulators will review 41 proposals offering 2,500 MW that were submitted in response to a September request seeking 400 MW of renewable-energy capacity.
In Woburn, Mass., National Grid shut off gas to 339 homes after a worker inadvertently over-pressurized a line Oct. 8. A similar occurrence Sept. 13 in a Columbia Gas line in the region apparently triggered explosions and fires that burned 80 structures in three localities.
Massachusetts’ two largest utilities, Eversource and National Grid, have mothballed their $3.2-billion Access Northeast natural-gas pipeline project, citing lack of regional support.
National Grid, which serves New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, is set to be the second U.S. natural-gas utility to use technology advanced by Google Earth, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and Colorado State University to boost large-scale methane-leak detection.
After nearly four months of grueling work 50 ft beneath a state beach in Rhode Island, crews have finished drilling a 2,250-ft tunnel for the conduit that will carry power from the 30-MW Block Island wind farm to a National Grid switching station in Narragansett, R.I.