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When the governors of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont released a joint statement Wednesday calling for reforms to ISO-NE, it read less like an olive branch and more like a precursor to a seismic shift in relations between the states and the RTO. The governors said they "require" changes to market...

The governors of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont released a joint statement Wednesday calling for reforms to ISO-NE, saying the RTO is frustrating their efforts to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions. "Here in Rhode Island, we’re committed to reducing our greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonizing our future. I’m...

Stronger federal leadership and changes to wholesale electricity market rules are needed to supplement New England’s decarbonization efforts, Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Kathleen Theoharides and Katie Dykes, commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, told Raab Associates’ New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable. Theoharides and Dykes...

Maine’s sunshine will soon provide more than just lighting for viewing the fall foliage. The Maine Public Utilities Commission last week announced a procurement of renewable energy, and solar developers were the clear winners, claiming 14 of the 17 projects selected. It is the PUC’s largest procurement of renewable energy...

Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court removed a major obstacle to the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) transmission line Thursday, ruling that a proposed voter initiative on the project is unconstitutional. Ruling on a challenge by Central Maine Power and parent Avangrid Networks, the court said the ballot question improperly intruded...

Officials from New England’s six states on Friday described their efforts to advance renewable energy goals despite the coronavirus pandemic. "We’re really lucky to live in this region where so many states are pushing for clean energy," said Catherine Finneran, vice president for sustainability and environmental affairs at Eversource Energy,...

A webinar last week to discuss strategies for meeting Maine’s renewable portfolio standards and emission-reduction targets presented a stark reminder of just how challenging decarbonizing the entire power sector and curtailing global climate change will be. The Environmental & Energy Technology Council of Maine (E2Tech) on Wednesday invited four panelists...

AUBURNDALE, Mass. — If 50 years ago you prophesied that school buses would someday help a utility stabilize the grid, people might have suggested that you had been reading too much Tom Wolfe or drinking the electric Kool-Aid on the bus with Ken Kesey. Same goes for heat pumps that...

By Michael Kuser ISO-NE CEO Gordon van Welie said Thursday that implementing a carbon price in New England’s wholesale power markets would be "simple" but that state officials need to signal their support before the RTO can act. Van Welie made his comments in his response to a Feb. 19...