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December Consumer Liaison Group meeting:
Mark your calendar for Wednesday, December 4th, 12-3:30pm at the Colonnade Hotel in Boston, for the last CLG meeting of the year! It will also ...
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Transmission webinar series:
The State Climate Policy Network is hosting a series of transmission-focused events, including introductory webinars on the basics of transmission, expert panels diving into various ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Peer-Learning Cohort from the Dept of Energy:
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Energy to Communities (C2C) program is now accepting applications for a new round of peer-learning cohorts. Participants in C2C ...
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Green Energy Consumer Alliance
We’re excited to invite you to our 42nd annual Fall Meeting, with guest speaker Melissa Lavinson, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Office of Energy Transformation. Join ...
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Managing peak demand during summer heat:
For those who are interested in resources related to shaving the peak (and hopefully avoiding having to turn on our most polluting power plants in ...
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Federal Department of Energy engagement:
The DOE has an Office of Community Engagement, and they are hosting office hours to answer questions and point folks toward resources. More details about ...
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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. ...
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Takeaways from the New England Conference of Public Utility Commissioners
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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The videos from our Fix the Grid Community Summit are now available!
You can find them all on Fix the Grid’s YouTube channel and share them from there.
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“Climate Resilience Playbook” – Help Shape It! (MA-specific)
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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Demand Response & Energy Democracy
#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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Follow up from MA EJ Table event on energy siting reform:
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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We have a new video about our action at the ISO-NE board meeting!
Check it out here , and many thanks to Ron Blau for creating it.
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Submit a comment to ISO-NE!!
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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Calling all Fix The Grid Committees
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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Report on the November 1, 2023 ISO-NE Board Meeting
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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TAKING BACK OUR ENERGY GRID
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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Job Posting:
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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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 ...
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EPA’s proposed carbon rules omit both the peaker problem and the peaker solution
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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How Do Electric Grid Operators Warn Us About Extreme Heat?
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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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 ...
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Video recording of FERC Office of Public Participation Workshop
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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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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The Tug of War Between Renewables and Gas, continued…
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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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 ...
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The Tug of War Between Wind and Gas Gets Heated
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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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ISO-NE CEO Gordon van Welie Must Resign
"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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FERC Equity and Environmental Justice Roundtable
On Wednesday, March 29th. See here for more details on speakers and schedule.
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FERC Winter Gas-Electric Forum in Portland, ME
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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A checklist for the region’s power grid operator