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…
Technical info related to the New England electric grid and other related topics
Industry News Highlights
Between July 2022 and September 2024, Bob Persons wrote a biweekly digest of industry news for Fix the Grid members. Thank you, Bob! This is the link to the archive…
How Private Monopolies Fuel Climate Disaster and Public Corruption
How Private Monopolies Fuel Climate Disaster and Public Corruption 8/30/23 post in The American Prospect by John Farrell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Starting with the Lahaina fire, Farrell cites several…
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…