Articles Tagged with ''natural gas''

Federal government's Annual Energy Outlook forecasts a lot more natural gas, continued increase for renewables.

I once attended training for fleet drivers who frequently tow trailers. During discussion of attaching the trailer hitch to the truck, the instructor asked if the operators crossed the safety chains under the tongue when connecting.

Xcel Energy has become the first utility to commit to 100% clean energy.

Even as natural gas service will be restored by the end of the month to the thousands affected by September’s gas explosions in Massachusetts, safeguards to prevent similar explosions nationwide won’t be coming as quickly.

While 45-miles of natural gas pipeline affected by a Sept. 13 gas explosion will be replaced nearly three weeks early, the restoration of full gas service will be delayed by about a month.

The Massachusetts Dept. of Public Utilities will hire an independent firm to examine the commonwealth’s natural gas distribution system in the wake of massive gas explosions in three towns north of Boston.

Federal investigators said that the Sept. 13 gas explosion in Massachusetts was the result of too much pressure surging through a pipeline.