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“Climate Resilience Playbook” – Help Shape It! (MA-specific)
The Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program, Metropolitan Area Planning Council, and Pioneer Valley Planning Commission are developing a “Climate Resilience Playbook” (Expected Spring 2025). Do you work for a local government, community-based organization, community health center, ...
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MA DPU Road Show:
The Massachusetts Dept of Public Utilities is going on the road! The commissioners are hosting a series of meetings across the state to engage directly with the public. The three Commissioners,who oversee the Department, will give ...
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We have a new video about our action at the ISO-NE board meeting!
Check it out here , and many thanks to Ron Blau for creating it.
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Calling all Fix The Grid Committees
The FTG Digital Presence Committee is responsible for the FTG website https://fix-the-grid.org/ and social media presence via Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FixtheGridNE/. We support the mission of FTG by bringing our message and extending our reach within our ...
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Announcements / Updates /Events
June CLG meeting:
The next quarterly meeting of the ISO-NE Consumer Liaison Group is coming up fast on Tuesday, June 4th at 12pm in Holyoke! As always, it’s important to get folks to show up and engage and we continue to move the conversation around our grid. If you’re planning to attend in person, ...
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National Academies Workshop:
National Academies is holding a workshop on June 17-18, 2024 in Washington, DC (and online) that will explore how to maintain and enhance the reliability of the U.S. electricity system under increasingly complex operating conditions. This event will bring together leaders from government, industry, academia, and nongovernmental organizations to consider ...
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Demand Response & Energy Democracy
#NoCoalNoGas at the #CLG Meeting! Yesterday the topic was “demand response,” which focuses on energy grid management that reduces our times of highest energy usage. New England’s grid operators (ISO-NE) don’t utilize demand response mechanisms quite as much as other regions, preferring to have “peaker plants” that get called to ...
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Follow up from MA EJ Table event on energy siting reform:
Nearly 250 people attended the EJ forum in person and online back in January! If you have not yet signed the petition to support the bill for siting improvement, please do so now. And if you have, thank you- please help spread the word. Here is the recording of the event if you would ...
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NECPUC symposium:
The 76th annual NECPUC (New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners) Symposium is coming up May 19th to 21st in Bretton Woods, NH. We got the suggestion that this would be a good place to connect with a number of state agency heads related to the grid. FTG has the funder ...
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Video recording of FERC Office of Public Participation Workshop
OPP recently held a workshop on “Public Participation in the Natural Gas Pre-Filing Review Process,” which is now available online here. OPP’s next WorkshOPP, this fall, will focus on participating as an intervenor in Commission proceedings.
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Maine Public Utilities Commission:
The ME PUC is holding a few “Coffee and Conversation with the Commissioners” this spring, with the next one coming up on May 29th at 6pm in Bangor. More information here.
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Submit a comment to ISO-NE!!
Last Wednesday, ISO-NE held their second ever open board meeting. Please submit written comments to the board regarding Fix the Grid’s demands! You can email comments to legal@iso-ne.com. If you submit a comment, please note these asks: Ask that ISO-NE respond specifically and publicly to your comment, and all the comments submitted, the way state and federal agencies do.
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A checklist for the region’s power grid operator