Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and D.C. signed a memorandum of understanding Monday to launch the Transportation and Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P), which aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles by 26% from 2022 to 2032 and invest $300 million per year in cleaner transportation choices and public health improvements.

State energy and environmental policy leaders from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine outlined their long-term strategies to achieve decarbonization goals Dec. 15 during a webinar co-hosted by the Connecticut Power and Energy Society and New England Women in Energy and the Environment. Heather Hunt, executive director of the New...

The New England Energy Summit kicked off the second of three virtual sessions last week with a U.S. senator touting carbon pricing and finished with a panel of energy experts from the public and private sectors. Here is some of what we heard at the summit, organized by the New England...

The COVID-19 pandemic upended legislative business across New England in 2020, though state legislatures still managed to advance significant legislation to transform the region’s energy industry. At its annual legislative update last week, the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association reviewed recent developments and issues to watch next year, including climate...

New England states called on ISO-NE last week to increase its transparency and the role of states in its decision-making, saying the current structure is incompatible with their clean energy efforts and is raising costs for ratepayers. The New England States Committee on Electricity (NESCOE) made the demands Friday in...

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...

An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 MW of offshore wind capacity representing a $28 billion to $57 billion investment in the U.S. economy will be operational by 2030, according to the U.S. Offshore Wind Power Economic Impact Assessment. OSW project development, construction and operations could bring a projected 83,000 jobs in that...

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...

The Northeast Energy and Commerce Association’s Fuels Conference on Wednesday tackled the subject of natural gas bans by local governments, questioning whether they are necessary for the "transition to a clean energy future or major government overreach with unintended consequences." Judy Chang, undersecretary of energy in the Massachusetts Executive Office...

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...