Reading Between the Lines of Northern Pass Polls
In recent months, we’ve heard a lot from the developer of the Northern Pass transmission project, Massachusetts and Connecticut-based Northeast Utilities, about swelling support and rising poll...
View ArticleNew Hampshire’s Biggest Clean Energy Opportunity: PSNH Divestiture Bill Heads...
Just a year ago, the headline would have been hard to imagine in a New Hampshire newspaper. Yesterday’s Concord Monitor reported, “House, Senate Approve PSNH Divestiture Bill.” The state is now on a...
View ArticleCLF and Allies to Department of Energy: Take off the Blinders in Northern...
Back in May, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) issued a report listing the alternatives to the Northern Pass transmission project that the agency may study during its environmental review. As I...
View ArticleThree Ugly Numbers Behind the Governors’ Push for Canadian Hydropower
As the New England Governors and the Eastern Canadian Premiers gather in Bretton Woods for their annual conference next week, it’s likely there will be much discussion of building new transmission...
View ArticleWhy Is Hydro-Québec So Intent on Overselling Its Hydropower?, Part I
For years, Hydro-Québec—the provincially-owned Canadian utility and financial sponsor of the Northern Pass transmission project—has oversold the benefits and downplayed the costs of its large-scale...
View ArticleLessons from 4 Years of Northern Pass Failures
This month marks the four-year anniversary of the announcement of the Northern Pass transmission project in New Hampshire. It has been a long, tortured road that won’t get any easier for project...
View ArticleWhy Is Hydro-Québec So Intent on Overselling Its Hydropower?, Part II
CLF has been asking questions about the carbon footprint of large-scale Canadian hydropower since before the Northern Pass project’s inception. I recently raised our concerns in my list of three ugly...
View ArticleWhy Is Hydro-Québec So Intent on Overselling Its Hydropower?, Part III
With the stresses that winter places on New England’s electric grid right around the corner, it’s a good time to revisit a crucial issue with increasing our reliance on hydropower imports from...
View ArticleEven This Winter, PSNH Coal Plants Aren’t Cheap
With electric rates headed up for the winter, more than a few people are admiring the perennially high but stable rates of PSNH, New Hampshire’s largest utility and the owner of the state’s two...
View ArticleMaking Renewable Energy “Dispatchable”
One of the biggest criticisms of renewable energy is that it is not “dispatchable.” “Dispatchable” electricity generators are the most useful ones to operators of the electricity grid, because grid...
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