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“Climate Resilience Playbook” – Help Shape It! (MA-specific)

admin — Tue, 14 May 2024 15:34:42 +0000

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, or another group contributing to local resilience initiatives? Help them understand your resilience priorities, challenges, and resource needs! Help Shape the Climate Resilience Playbook. Please click here.

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Maine Public Utilities Commission:

admin — Tue, 14 May 2024 15:29:52 +0000

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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MA DPU Road Show:

admin — Tue, 14 May 2024 15:24:53 +0000

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 a presentation outlining the work that the Department does and their recent successes. Following the presentation, the Commission will take comments from the public. The remaining sessions will be in-person only. Please register at the following link if you plan to attend any of these sessions: https://projects.erg.com/conferences/MassDPU/RoadShowEvents/

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June CLG meeting:

admin — Tue, 14 May 2024 15:18:13 +0000

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, please reach out to me before you register so that we can fill you in on some plans that our allies at No Coal No Gas are putting together and see if you can support.

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Thoughts of FTG Summit

Sudi Smoller — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:40:03 +0000

It was an awakening to attend the FTG Summit in Danbury, NH last week. For me, and many others attending from around New England, it was a first time, face-to-face meeting. No hybrid; solely live. A community center where a day’s long summit for climate and energy democracy activists was supremely hosted by Fix The Grid.

Kudos to Mireille Beijjani and members of Slingshot for positively reviving my association with face-to-face, day long events as genuine community and a feeling of belonging. There were children happily mingling throughout the day and attending available day care. A Spanish language interpreter provided real time translation. Food greeted early morning travelers who drove through rain and snow to participate. Lunch was a vegan taco bar. There was water to fill personal containers but no plastic water bottles or drinks. A videographer and professional photographer documented the gathering. The entire space was filled with breakout groups discussing different levels of grid issues. More details of the day, including a video recording, is coming soon.

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National Academies Workshop:

admin — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:29:16 +0000

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 how to improve the operational integrity of the United States’ electricity grid while incorporating new technologies and distributed elements. More info here.

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MassEnergize conference:

admin — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 16:22:34 +0000

MassEnergize is hosting a one-day conference for climate leaders, community organizers, municipal sustainability officers, and members of climate and sustainability-focused organizations. Anyone working to educate and motivate others to take climate action to reduce GHG emissions in their communities is invited to attend. The conference is April 3, 2024 at Brandeis University in Waltham.

Speaker, program and registration information is available on the MassEnergize website.

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Demand Response & Energy Democracy

Sudi Smoller — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:47:48 +0000

#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!

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Follow up from MA EJ Table event on energy siting reform:

admin — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 19:09:00 +0000

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 like to watch it again.

Here are the slides and here is the forum handout.

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NECPUC symposium:

admin — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 18:16:17 +0000

The 76^th 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 to pay for a few folks to go, so if you’re interested please let me know! The agenda, registration, and hotel reservation information will be available on the NECPUC website in the weeks to come. For travel planning purposes, the public sessions of the symposium will kick off with a reception on Sunday, May 19 at 5:45 pm, and wrap up at approximately 4:00 pm on Tuesday, May 21.

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