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By adamg - 2/29/24 - 12:32 am

Eversource reports some 890 residences and businesses in Hyde Square lost power around 11:15 p.m, Wednesday, and are not expected to get it back until 5 a.m.

It's the first major blackout in JP since Jan. 18.

By adamg - 1/21/24 - 12:16 pm

Jamaica Plain News talks to Eversource about what caused Thursday night's outage in Jamaica Plain, which at its peak took out power to more than 4,400 residences and businesses.

By adamg - 1/18/24 - 9:42 pm

Update, 10:50 a.m. Eversource says it's restored almost all the power, except to 10 customers.

Around 9 p.m., the lights began blinking out in Jamaica Plain. As of 9:35, Eversource is reporting 4,438 homes and businesses in Boston without power, most of them in JP, and most of those clustered in the area between Jamaica Pond, the Arboretum and Franklin Park, about as far north as Parley Avenue and Green Street. Read more.

By adamg - 1/10/24 - 11:28 am
Fire crew on St. Stephen Street in the Fenway

Fire crews on St. Stephens Street, photo by Shamus Moynihan.

Two manholes on St. Stephen Street in the Fenway exploded and began belching smoke around 10 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 12/22/23 - 10:08 pm
Eversource map showing outages in Roxbury, South End

Eversource map showing outages in Roxbury, South End at 11 p.m.

Update 11 p.m.: The number of businesses and homes without power is up to 7,959.

Eversource reports a series of power outages from just north of Franklin Park up to Boston Medical Center and areas near Tremont and Dartmouth street to the turnpike. Some 204 business and homes were blacked out as of 10:05 p.m. - as well as traffic and street lights.

By adamg - 12/18/23 - 2:37 pm
Flooded Fenway

Firefighters, police officers and public-works and Eversource crews earned their pay today as a never ending flood of reports came in about downed trees and utility poles, power outages and flooded roads. Here are some of the reports reported to Boston 311 today: Read more.

By adamg - 12/18/23 - 9:38 am

Update, 12:45 p.m.: Outage numbers now around 6,112 in Boston, with numerous outages in Hyde Park and Mattapan.

As of 9:30 a.m., Eversource reported more than 3,400 businesses and homes in Boston have lost power - including 1,600 or so in Roxbury, where falling tree limbs knocked out power at 6:32 a.m. and 1,400 in Jamaica Plain, where the power went off at 8:09 a.m.

By adamg - 11/14/23 - 9:30 am

The Centre Street corridor from roughly the Arborway rotary to Boylston Street went dark around 12:30 a.m. for maintenance, Eversource reports. As of 9:25, Eversource was still reporting 667 houses and businesses had no power, with an estimated restoration time for most of them around 11:30 a.m.

By adamg - 11/3/23 - 11:41 am
Map showing power outages across West Roxbury, Dedham, part of Roslindale

Outages at 11:30 a.m., via Eversource outage map.

Update, 3:15 p.m. Eversource reports 139 homes and businesses still without power in Boston, but no outages in Dedham, Brookline and Newton.

Eversource is blaming "equipment damage" for widespread outages that started around 10:45 a.m. in an area that extends from Brookline and Newton streets in the north to most of West Roxbury and Dedham in the south. Parts of Roslindale as far east as Roslindale Square are also affected. Read more.

By adamg - 10/17/23 - 8:03 am

Cambridge Day reports MIT is fighting Eversource over underground power cables the utility wants to install beneath MIT as part of its plans for a new Binney Street substation. In filings with the state, MIT goes so far as to say the work could kill the school, because it could disrupt the arteries that radiate out from the school's "heart" - a central utility plant that feeds vital electricity, steam and water across the campus.

By adamg - 8/18/23 - 8:36 am

WBUR reports the utility wishes to differ, saying the gas leak outside a Maynard man's home that caused an explosion that killed him when he flicked on a basement light to investigate a strange odor was just "an isolated, tragic accident" and has absolutely nothing to do with what the state says was its failures to fix leaks on the street for years.

By adamg - 6/16/23 - 10:27 am

Update: JP Licks reports its ice cream survived.

Eversource reports nearly 3,000 businesses and homes lost power along Centre Street and South Huntington Avenue in Jamaica Plain at 10:10 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 4/27/23 - 2:55 pm

A high-pressure gas main ruptured in the area of 300 Main St. around 2 p.m., forcing the evacuation of MIT buildings E19, E28, and E38 and the shutdown of the Kendall Square Red Line station - which led the T to swap in shuttle buses between Harvard and Park. Read more.

By adamg - 2/8/23 - 11:55 am

And that's why a news copter was hovering over Fairmount Hill this morning, according to the Hyde Park Neighbors group on Facebook. Eversource is estimating 1:30 p.m. for full restoration of power.

By adamg - 1/17/23 - 3:39 pm

WBZ reports on today's arrests outside the controversial East Eagle Street substation, construction of which began last week.

By adamg - 1/2/23 - 11:01 pm
ISO alert on Christmas Eve

"Power caution" is electric-industryese for "Guys, we could be out of enough reserve power soon."

On Christmas Eve, after a brutal winter storm had swept from one coast to the other and left millions of people in the dark - including 200,000 in the western and northernmost parts of New England - a series of events created an emergency situation for the regional power grid over a couple of hours that afternoon. Read more.

By adamg - 12/23/22 - 9:37 am

MEMA reports that as of 9:15 a.m., 74,000 homes and businesses in Massachusetts have lost power.

The Eversource outage map so far shows only a few scattered outages in Boston and other inside-128 places.

By adamg - 11/30/22 - 4:51 pm

WBUR reports on the approval for Eversource's proposed East Eagle Street substation.

By adamg - 11/28/22 - 10:40 pm

Eversource reports the lights went out for 855 homes and businesses along Morrissey Boulevard in the Savin Hill/UMass entrance area shortly before 9 p.m. The company says it hopes to have the power flowing again by midnight.

By adamg - 11/4/22 - 11:57 am

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today a state board did nothing wrong in approving plans by Eversource to swap two sites on East Eagle Street in East Boston for a proposed substation. Read more.

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