Allco Renewable Energy Group has challenged a three-state effort to bring more renewable energy to New England.

This week's state briefs include news on Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota and Pennsylvania.

New England governors last week backed away from their 2013 commitment to share the costs of new gas pipelines and electric transmission, announcing a revised regional energy strategy that gives individual states more flexibility.

This week's state briefs include news on Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin.

Three New England states are combining their buying power to purchase clean energy resources and transmission to deliver it.

News briefs from the states within the footprint of RTOs. This week we include Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin, as well as the Canadian province of Manitoba.

ISO-NE chose Eversource Energy and National Grid to build a $740 million land-based transmission project to solve reliability problems in the Boston area, rejecting a more expensive undersea cable proposal by NextEra.

A Massachusetts state legislator whose district includes Brayton Point has filed legislation that would revamp the state’s energy landscape.

Massachusetts needs additional natural gas pipeline capacity to avoid severe energy shortages in the next few decades, a study concluded.