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nergy Department put the gas stove debate on the front burner again Wednesday by proposing new efficiency standards for consumer cooking appliances.

A Massachusetts high school that’s been unable to turn off its roughly 7,000 lights found itself as the butt of a joke on “Saturday Night Live” this week. The lights at Minnechaug Regional High School haven’t been turned off since Aug. 24, 2021 after lighting system software failed, NBC News reported last week. The issue has cost the public school…

Blame it on the pandemic and “supply chain problems,” says the school district’s assistant superintendent of finance.

The significant advance in technology has been decades in the making.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm discusses the breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where for the first time a fusion energy reaction was created in a laboratory.

Officials in Chelsea, Massachusetts, are bringing back a program that provides up to $400 a month to low-income families to help pay their bills amid rising energy costs. Chelsea Eats launched in November 2020 as the city refocused its efforts from distributing food during the pandemic to providing direct financial support to residents so that they could buy food and…

After a successful first run, the city of Chelsea is bringing back its universal basic income program, giving $400 a month to eligible families.

People in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood are concerned about rising costs to heat their homes this winter. Beginning this month, many Massachusetts residents are paying more for energy. National Grid’s winter price hikes went into effect Tuesday, meaning the average monthly electric bill will go up by 64%, and the average monthly natural gas bill will increase by 24%. Eversource said…

The Biden administration has announced a plan to help lower energy costs ahead of this winter.

It’s cold outside, which means your energy bills will start heating up. Here are five easy tricks to cool off your utility bills this winter.

More than two weeks after the Massachusetts primary, the candidates for governor have kept a low profile — with the latest Suffolk/NBC Boston poll showing Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey more than 20 points ahead of her Republican opponent, former state Rep. Geoff Diehl. Both candidates have different ideas about how, as governor, they would handle a key issue facing…

Massachusetts gubernatorial candidates Maura Healey and Geoff Diehl responded Wednesday to the increase in energy costs from National Grid.

Diesel and heating oil supplies in the Northeast are more than 50% below the recent average, raising concerns that an extreme weather event could cause supply disruptions, federal officials said. Fuel supplies are lower than normal across the country for a variety of reasons, including the war in Ukraine. But it’s the worst in the Northeast. Diesel fuel and heating…

You could call it an electric shock, with energy bills in New Hampshire set to go up — doubling in many cases. On Aug. 1, Liberty Utilities will raise its rates 100% in New Hampshire. Eversource is going up 112%. “You can see maybe justifying a small rate increase, but I heard up to 100% rate hike,” said Anita, who…

Some New Hampshire residents are seeing their electric bills double.

President Joe Biden urged lawmakers Thursday to pass the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, a bill which would offer inflation relief and invest in energy security and climate change programs.

NBC10 Boston Consumer Reporter Leslie Gaydos has energy-saving tips as we expect to see more frequent heat waves in the future.

The government of Boulder City, Nevada, posted on its Twitter account that the fire was extinguished before the fire department arrived.

Around the world, drivers are looking at the numbers on the gas pump and rethinking their habits and finances.

Biden warned refiners the administration is ready to “use all reasonable and appropriate Federal Government tools and emergency authorities to increase refinery capacity and output in the near term”