ISO-NE weighs new executive position on Environmental Justice
You may have seen in the news last week that 5 of the 6 states in our region sent a letter to ISO-NE asking the grid operator to establish an…
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…
Technical News Highlights June 4-22
In the last two weeks there have been a flurry of news items relevant to Fix the Grid, including two local news articles about the FERC Winter Reliability conference in…
No silver bullet for interconnection woes, generators play the bankruptcy card, and more
A summary of selected studies and articles posted on June 4.
Challenge to ISO-NE Winter Reliability Plan, new RFP for Wind in MA, and more
The last two weeks of highlights for grid technical news include an article favorably comparing battery storage technology to fossil-fuel-based peakers, a proposal for EV charging on highways, a large…