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Personality Crisis - What's Ahead for New England's Power Grid? Is More Gas Part of the Answer?

Personality Crisis - What's Ahead for New England's Power Grid? Is More Gas Part of the Answer?

RBN Energy Blogcast · Housley Carr

March 28, 202512m 0s

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Two factors — public concern about soaring utility bills and President Trump’s strong opposition to offshore wind — are forcing New England to rethink its once-ambitious plans for a renewables-heavy electric grid and reassess how to meet its power-generation needs in the late 2020s and early 2030s. One possibility would be to expand the region’s access to piped-in natural gas, but midstreamers’ previous efforts to add pipeline capacity were beaten back time and again. In today’s RBN blog, we discuss New England’s ongoing debate about what to do next.