Miriam Wasser
@MiriamWasser
Energy and climate reporter for @WBUR, Boston's NPR news station
Email: [email protected] | she/her
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Congrats to reporter Martha Bebinger for winning a Gracie Award for her dedicated reporting on addiction and home-based supervised consumption. It’s well deserved recognition of the important work our makers do every day. #wemakewbur
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Maybe it happened to you; maybe it happened to someone you know — suddenly high electric bills, perhaps coming a supplier no one remembers signing up with.
Welcome to the wild world of competitive electric suppliers — Miriam Wasser and I dove in.
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As the MA legislature gears up for a big debate over the future of third-party electric suppliers --ie, whether to ban or reform the industry-- Sabrina Shankman and I took a deep dive into the fight
We looked at the arguments, the stakes and, of course, the $$$ wbur.org/news/2024/03/2…
new england's last coal-fired power plant is officially closing. huge news, well reported by Mara Hoplamazian for NH Public Radio and NENC New England nhpr.org/nh-news/2024-0…
'Between 2018 and 2023, members of REAL and another industry trade group, the Retail Energy Supply Association, spent more than $3 million lobbying state lawmakers.'
Big $$
These energy suppliers say they can save you money. Regulators say it’s a scam. apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/2024/03/…
Update on this. Four developers submitted bids today, totaling up to 5.5GW. They are:
Avangrid, with 791MW/1.9GW projects
Vineyard Offshore 1.2GW
Ørsted U.S. 1.2GW
SouthCoast Wind 1.2GW
‘Hey, geez, we're a thermal utility.’ - I so love this quote by Eversource MA VP Nikki Bruno! Read the whole amazing article by Miriam Wasser wbur.org/news/2024/03/0…
“It's a powerful story: a gas utility building a transition off gas,” HEET Co-Executive Director Zeyneb Magavi told Miriam Wasser WBUR of our nation-leading networked #geothermal pilot project in City of Framingham. Hear more 👇 wbur.org/news/2024/03/0…
As Eversource MA prepares to launch the country's first utility-led networked geothermal project, many hope it can provide a business model and road map for other utilities to wean themselves off of fossil fuels in the future.
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This piece by Barbara Moran is every bit as delightful (and informative) as the headline: wbur.org/news/2024/02/1…
It's Septic System week here at WBUR! Up first, Barbara Moran's story about the extent of the pollution problem on Cape Cod, and some potential solutions wbur.org/news/2024/02/1…
🚨Hey Massachusetts!🚨 Miriam Wasser and I are teaming up on a story about competitive electric suppliers and we want to hear from you⚡️Have you signed up? Got a story to tell? ⚡️
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