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Events

Takeaways from the New England Conference of Public Utility Commissioners

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July 8, 2024
20 -21 May 2024, Bretton Woods NH Roy Harvey The NECPUC Symposium is an annual gathering of the New England Conference of Public Utilities Commissioners, …

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Featured

The videos from our Fix the Grid Community Summit are now available!

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June 7, 2024
 You can find them all on Fix the Grid’s YouTube channel and share them from there.

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News

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

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May 14, 2024
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 …

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Events

MA DPU Road Show:

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May 14, 2024
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 …

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Featured

Demand Response & Energy Democracy

Sudi Smoller
March 8, 2024
#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. …

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Education

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

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February 13, 2024
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 …

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Campaign Info

We have a new video about our action at the ISO-NE board meeting!

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January 5, 2024
Check it out here , and many thanks to Ron Blau for creating it.

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Action

Submit a comment to ISO-NE!!

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November 27, 2023
Last Wednesday, ISO-NE held their second ever open board meeting. Please submit written comments to the board regarding Fix the Grid’s demands! You can email comments to legal@iso-ne.com. …

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News

Calling all Fix The Grid Committees

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November 20, 2023
The FTG Digital Presence Committee is responsible for the FTG website https://fix-the-grid.org/ and social media presence via Facebook https://www.facebook.com/FixtheGridNE/. We support the mission of FTG …

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Commentary

A checklist for the region’s power grid operator

Mireille Bejjani
November 7, 2023
Greater accessibility, accountability and buy-in to climate fight needed An Op-Ed written by Phelps Turner and Mireille Bejjani for Commonwealth Magazine

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Commentary

Report on the November 1, 2023 ISO-NE Board Meeting

Monte Pearson
November 4, 2023
Before I went into the ISO-NE Board Meeting in the Seaport Hotel – the only one they hold in public each year – I discovered …

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Commentary

TAKING BACK OUR ENERGY GRID

Monte Pearson
November 4, 2023
A rally and theatrical battle occurred on Wednesday, Nov. 1 at the South BostonMaritime Park, barely a skip and hop from the only public meeting held by …

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News

Job Posting:

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November 2, 2023
The MA Office of Federal and Regional Affairs (within the Office of Energy and Env Affairs) is hiring a new director position. You can take …

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BackPage

Industry News Highlights

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October 21, 2023
Bob Persons regularly updates a digest of industry news of relevance to Fix the Grid. To see the full digest, follow this link to Fix …

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Technical Analysis

Comments from Fix the Grid on Reliability

Kent Wittenburg
September 30, 2023
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 …

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Education

EPA’s proposed carbon rules omit both the peaker problem and the peaker solution

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September 27, 2023
9/12/23 Utility Dive Opinion by Shelley Robbins, project director at Clean Energy Group. The Environmental Protection Administration excluded peaker plants from its proposed CCS (carbon …

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News

How Do Electric Grid Operators Warn Us About Extreme Heat?

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September 27, 2023
9/7/23 UCS (Union of Concerned Scientists) post by Tasnima Naoshin. Explains clearly the levels of alert the major U.S. RTOs (Regional Transmission Organizations, like ISO-NE) …

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Technical

How Private Monopolies Fuel Climate Disaster and Public Corruption

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August 12, 2023
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 …

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Video recording of FERC Office of Public Participation Workshop

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August 11, 2023
OPP recently held a workshop on “Public Participation in the Natural Gas Pre-Filing Review Process,” which is now available online here.  OPP’s next WorkshOPP, this …

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News

ISO-NE weighs new executive position on Environmental Justice

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August 11, 2023
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 …

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News

New FERC Rules for Speeding up Grid Connections

Kent Wittenburg
July 30, 2023
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, …

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Technical Analysis

Takeaways from the ISO-NE Future Grid Reliability Study: Phase 1

Kent Wittenburg
June 30, 2023
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 …

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Commentary

The Tug of War Between Renewables and Gas, continued…

Monte Pearson
June 28, 2023
Notes from the DoubleTree Hilton, the Second New England Winter Gas-Electric Forum, June 20, 2023; live from Portland, Maine Just before noon, there is another …

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News

Technical News Highlights June 4-22

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June 23, 2023
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 …

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Commentary

The Tug of War Between Wind and Gas Gets Heated

Monte Pearson
June 22, 2023
The convention hall at DoubleTree by Hilton in Portland feels very dark as Marya Axner and I arrive late for the FERC meeting. This is …

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Events

FTG advocates loud and clear at ISO-NE Consumer Liaison Group Meeting in Peabody

Kent Wittenburg
June 12, 2023
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 …

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News

No silver bullet for interconnection woes, generators play the bankruptcy card, and more

Kent Wittenburg
June 12, 2023
A summary of selected studies and articles posted on June 4.

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Technical Analysis

Takeaways from the Jacobson Stanford Study on a 100% Renewable Grid

Kent Wittenburg
May 31, 2023
by Roy Harvey and Kent Wittenburg on behalf of the FTG Technical Committee   To counter the view put forth by many power industry authorities …

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Technical Analysis

Takeaways from the ISO-NE Future Pathways Study

Kent Wittenburg
May 30, 2023
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 …

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News

Challenge to ISO-NE Winter Reliability Plan, new RFP for Wind in MA, and more

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May 13, 2023
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 …

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Commentary

ISO-NE CEO Gordon van Welie Must Resign

Sudi Smoller
May 8, 2023
“When a major institution – private, government, or non-profit – proves itself to be trapped in an old or obsolete organizational strategy, the sensible response …

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Education

FERC Equity and Environmental Justice Roundtable

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March 22, 2023
On Wednesday, March 29th. See here for more details on speakers and schedule.

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Education

 FERC Winter Gas-Electric Forum in Portland, ME

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March 22, 2023
FERC is coming back to our region for a follow up on their last forum. This time, they’ll be discussing solutions to winter gas-electric reliability …

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