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The law says double power poles should be replaced within a few months, but the NBC10 Boston Investigators found some still there years later.

There are more than 16,000 of these dangerous-looking eyesores dotting the landscape across Massachusetts, some likely in your neighborhood. Double power poles are the result of new construction, storm damage and car accidents, created when a new pole is installed next to the old, damaged one.

Businesses in one central Massachusetts community say they are struggling due to extremely high electric bills. Turning the lights on in Beemers Pub & Grill in downtown Fitchburg could mean lights off for the business.

Massachusetts and Rhode Island have announced offshore wind projects aimed at delivering a combined 1,200 megawatts of energy — or enough to power 600,000 homes.

More than 47,000 customers were still without power in Massachusetts Saturday morning after heavy snow from a second March nor’easter took down tree limbs and power lines in many communities earlier in the week.

A week after New Hampshire regulators soundly rejected a $1.6 billion hydropower project, Massachusetts officials are demanding to know whether Northern Pass still is a viable option for delivering clean energy to their state by 2020.

A severe storm packing hurricane force wind gusts and soaking rain swept through the Northeast early Monday, knocking out power for more than a million and forcing hundreds of schools to close in New England.

More than 800,000 New England customers are without power as a major storm continues to blast the region.