EarlyBird News

Over the past couple of months, natural gas futures contracts have dropped as low as $3.53 on June 28 after reaching a one-year high of $4.53 on May 1. There is support at $3.40. Below is a price chart of the August future contract over the past twelve months:  

EarlyBird has coordinated with Southern Sky Renewable Energy on the largest private solar deal in Massachusetts. Here is a photo from the Carver site this morning:

On Friday, June 7, the Massachusetts DOER held a meeting to discuss the finalization of the current SREC program in addition to the implementation of the next program. The meeting was crucial in addressing the ramifications of the unexpected announcement it made on Wednesday, May 29, saying that the current SREC program had reached its […]

Fixed basic service, July through December (in $/kWh): Residential: 0.07506 Commercial Street Lighting: 0.07426 Industrial (NEMA): 0.07239 (through September) Industrial (SEMA): 0.07042 (through September) Monthly basic service (in $/kWh): Residential July: 0.07542 August: 0.07353 September: 0.07057 October: 0.07087 November: 0.07342 December: 0.08489 Commercial, Street Lighting  July: 0.07575 August: 0.07438 September: 0.06847 October: 0.06815 November: 0.07189 December: […]

In the Northeast this summer natural gas prices are expected to rise due to increase demand. Some experts are saying natural gas in the Northeast may average $5-$5.50 per million British thermal units (MMBtu) or even in the $7-$8 per MMBtu range. Natural gas prices at Algonquin City Gates, the pipeline system that delivers gas […]

On Friday, PJM, the regional transmission organization (RTO) that coordinates the wholesale power market for 13 states (all or parts of Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, and Tennessee, all of which EarlyBird Power is licensed in), reported the results of its annual […]

Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York wants Public Service Electric & Gas Co. of New Jersey to take over for the Long Island Power Authority. “LIPA is broken. And LIPA has to go away,” Gov. Cuomo asserted in the wake of the well-known failures of the utility company in response to Hurricane Sandy. LIPA was […]

The Energy Department reported on Wednesday that it has published a new series of protocols for determining the savings that result from upgrades in energy efficiency in homes, commercial buildings, and industrial facilities in the hopes that the new methods will improve credibility and clearly outline the advantages of energy efficiency programs that give families […]

Large cities like New York have laws set in place that require property owners to monitor energy and water usage. Boston has now joined the ranks of those cities by passing an ordinance that will require large commercial and residential building owners in the city to report their annual energy and water usage in the […]

Over the weekend, President Barack Obama said that the U.S. would likely be a net natural gas exporter by 2020. This major announcement follows the World Energy Outlook’s scenario forecast that also sees the U.S. becoming a net gas exporter by 2020 and even nearly self-sufficient by 2035. President Obama indicated in his trip to […]