Talk by Lorenzo Kristov
On Friday, November 15 the Technical Committee hosted a talk by Lorenzo Kristov, a visionary on the potential of distributed energy resources (DER) to enable a democratized, decentralized, and just…
Stand Against Fossil Gas Expansion in our Back Yards
Apparently Enbridge didn’t get the memo. The memo being that we are in a climate red alert! That we must transition away from fossil fuels. That we must stop expansion…
Comments from Fix the Grid on Reliability
The Fix the Grid Technical Committee has submitted comments on FERC’s 2023 New England Winter Gas-Electric Forum in Portland, ME. Forty-four environmental, social, and labor organizations across New England joined…
New FERC Rules for Speeding up Grid Connections
FERC has responded to the serious backlog for connecting to the grid that is due in part by policies that give priority to first-to-file resources, even when other resources may…
Takeaways from the ISO-NE Future Grid Reliability Study: Phase 1
by Roy Harvey and Kent Wittenburg on behalf of the FTG Technical Committee The Future Grid Reliability Study was undertaken by ISO-NE to plan for a transformed grid in which…
Open Letter to NE Governors and NESCOE representatives regarding FERC Winter Reliability Forum
The Fix the Grid organization and 54 other community justice, environmental, religious, and scientific organizations in New England are urging the New England governors and their state representatives in NESCOE…
FTG advocates loud and clear at ISO-NE Consumer Liaison Group Meeting in Peabody
On June 8, the Consumer Liaison Group of ISO-NE held its first public meeting that was organized under the influence of the slate of clean-energy-transition advocates that were elected to…
No silver bullet for interconnection woes, generators play the bankruptcy card, and more
A summary of selected studies and articles posted on June 4.
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Takeaways from the Jacobson Stanford Study on a 100% Renewable Grid
by Roy Harvey and Kent Wittenburg on behalf of the FTG Technical Committee To counter the view put forth by many power industry authorities in New England and elsewhere…
Takeaways from the ISO-NE Future Pathways Study
By Roy Harvey and Kent Wittenburg on behalf of the FTG Technical Committee The Pathways Study, commissioned by ISO-NE, seeks to evaluate a number of alternative pathways forward in…