BOSTON —

Every year, gas companies across Massachusetts are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to put new pipes in the ground despite the state's plan to phase out natural gas by 2050 in the fight against climate change. The work is being paid for with customer money and raises a lot of questions about just what customers are paying for on sky-high utility bills.

The multibillion-dollar investment in gas infrastructure also comes as the electric grid needs billions of dollars in expansion work to prepare for the full electrification of the winter heating season in Massachusetts.

In Wrentham's Creek Street neighborhood, it's been a loud, messy and disruptive year. Streets have been dug up since the spring as Eversource crews replace gas pipes underground and the individual service

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