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CEMA
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has started to revise the states' Comprehensive Energy Strategy (CES), and it looks as though natural gas expansion will continue to be a big part of the plan. At a recent scoping meeting hosted by DEEP, it was explicitly stated that natural gas conversion would be included in the revised CES.
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CEMA
According to an announcement from the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services found here, the state motor vehicle fuel fuels tax (aka excise tax) on diesel fuel will be 41.7 cents per gallon effective July 1. This is a decrease from the current rate of 50.3 cents, due to declining fuel prices over the past year.
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CEMA
In light of the governor's plans for a second phase of his Comprehensive Energy Plan, we are holding our regional member chapter meetings later this month rather than in October and November. At these informative meetings, we'll recap the legislative session that ended last month, discuss the new directions for the energy plan and go over some ideas of how we can influence the process in the months to come.
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CEMA
We return to the Hyatt Regency in Newport, Rhode Island, for our Annual Meeting and our joint Southern New England Energy Conference. The hotel is a CEMA member favorite venue, located on Goat Island in Newport, right on the water of Newport Harbor. The event is also a joint education conference with the Massachusetts Energy Marketers Association and the Oil Heat Institute of Rhode Island. Online hotel reservations may be made here.
CEMA
The gas utility tariffs for June 2016 are in, and here we compare them to average retail heating oil prices. The rates below are expressed in heating oil gallon equivalents, and so present gas rates on a British thermal unit (Btu) to Btu equivalent basis with heating oil. These are the system expansion tariffs, which apply to all conversions from heating oil to utility gas.
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CEMA
Warm temperatures and partly sunny skies made for ideal conditions at CEMA's annual Golf Outing held earlier this week on Tuesday, at the Wallingford Country Club. Thanks go out to Wallingford member John Daniels of Daniels Energy for sponsoring our event at his club.
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CEMA
Employee safety meetings — who needs them? It's a struggle to find reliable resources, not to mention timely and engaging topics. Then there's the challenge of rounding up workers scattered amongst several jobsites, or trying to fit a session into everyone's schedule. Soon, a meaningful safety meeting feels out of reach. Sound familiar?
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Oil & Energy Online
It's time for oil heat to make some noise. The tables have turned dramatically in the oil heat versus natural gas debate, and last month's news that Kinder Morgan is walking away from the Northeast Energy Direct natural gas pipeline only strengthens oil heat's position.
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Connecticut Post
United Illuminating Co., the major electric supplier for 328,000 customers the New Haven, Bridgeport and Naugatuck Valley region, announced to the state Public Utilities Regulatory Authority that it intends to request a three-year, $141 million rate increase.
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CT News Junkie
Another glitch from the $26 million upgrade to the Department of Motor Vehicles computer system could impact tax bills for as many as 50,000 drivers, the department said recently. The DMV, the Connecticut Association of Assessing Officers and the Connecticut Tax Collectors Association are asking residents to check their motor vehicle tax bills carefully to make sure there are no errors.
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Hartford Business Journal
In the face of a three-year upswing in delinquencies among its residential accounts, Connecticut's largest electric and gas utility wants to report customer payment data to credit bureaus every month. Eversource said monthly credit reporting of all residential payment activity, part of a proposed one-year pilot program not yet approved by the state's utilities regulator, would spur more customers to pay due bills and could boost credit scores for those who pay on time.
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WWLP-TV
Just four years ago, Springfield, Massachusetts, was rattled by a natural gas line explosion. A worker checking for a leak accidentally punctured a gas line causing the explosion. Now, 22News has uncovered that there's hundreds of leaking gas lines right now throughout western Massachusetts.
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The CT Mirror
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's approval rating hit a low of 24 percent in a new Quinnipiac University poll, reflecting voter dismay over a chronic fiscal crisis that has come to define his six years as governor, most recently requiring service reductions and state employee layoffs.
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CNNMoney via Hartford Business Journal
Summer gas prices are expected to be at their lowest level in 12 years, according to a government forecast released recently. Gas is expected to average $2.27 a gallon nationwide during the April through September summer driving season, according to the Energy Information Administration. That's down 36 cents, or 13 percent, from gas prices last summer.
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Foley Carrier Services
As the world becomes ever-smaller with minute-by-minute advances in technology, communication and tracking capabilities, privacy is a major concern on all of our minds. Nowhere has this been more evident recently than the trucking industry — most specifically around Electronic Logging Devices.
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