#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 run on the hottest and coldest days of the year.
We learned that other regions do have successful voluntary energy conservation programs. Advocates in this region want to see more of an effort to incorporate this kind of demand response – one that makes our polluting peaker plants irrelevant!
