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Posted inEnergy & Environment

A key rule on the New England power grid will end, but not for a while

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel May 31, 2022 @ 11:37 amMay 31, 2022 @ 11:39 am

At the last minute, ISO-New England filed a plan to keep the MOPR – a rule that makes it harder for renewables to join the grid – until 2025.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

Climate change bills face the ticking legislative clock, again

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel April 26, 2022 @ 5:00 amApril 26, 2022 @ 4:00 pm

Complex measures aimed at tackling environmental issues still await final passage with just days to go in the legislative session.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

New England takes a detour on grid reform; griping ensues

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel February 23, 2022 @ 5:00 amMarch 17, 2022 @ 5:36 pm

After years of pushing to reform New England’s electric grid, DEEP Commissioner Katie Dykes agreed to delay the first big change.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

Lamont aims to succeed on climate where the legislature failed

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel December 16, 2021 @ 2:39 pmFebruary 1, 2022 @ 8:44 pm

The governor unveils a wide-ranging executive order addressing a broad spectrum of climate change measures.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

The price of energy is going up in CT. Could it have been avoided?

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel November 19, 2021 @ 5:00 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:17 pm

Some are frustrated with 10 years of programs that should have helped residents insulate themselves from spikes in energy costs.

Posted inEnergy & Environment, Government

For CT’s environmental agency, Zoom was ‘the real hero’ of the pandemic

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel July 13, 2021 @ 5:00 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:41 pm

Despite some legislative setbacks, more work on environmental issues than initially anticipated got done over Zoom

Posted inEnergy & Environment, Transportation

It looks like CT’s Transportation Climate Initiative bill is dead. Now what?

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel June 9, 2021 @ 12:15 pmAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:42 pm

The legislature’s failure to pass TCI could test the state’s leadership role in battling climate change.

Posted inEnergy & Environment, Transportation

Is it a plan to fight climate change, or a gas tax? The TCI is facing fierce pushback

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel May 17, 2021 @ 5:00 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:42 pm

Connecticut is one of 14 jurisdictions signed on to the Transportation and Climate Initiative.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

A battle to get more clean energy into New England’s electric grid is underway. Here’s what you need to know.

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel April 26, 2021 @ 5:00 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:42 pm

The DEEP commissioner is leading an effort to increase renewable power, lower costs and keep everyone civil. It’s not simple.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

Opposed by GOP, Lamont campaigns for climate initiative

Avatar photo by Mark Pazniokas March 30, 2021 @ 7:23 pmAugust 3, 2022 @ 1:40 pm

In promoting the Transportation and Climate Initiative, Lamont is working to succeed where he failed two years ago on tolls.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

CT has big plans for tackling climate change. Now it has to make them happen.

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel February 9, 2021 @ 8:59 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:43 pm

Gov. Ned Lamont wants to expand the role of the Connecticut Green Bank to include funding for climate change projects.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

A shocker in the plan to finally update residential solar rates: No complaints

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel January 29, 2021 @ 5:00 amAugust 23, 2022 @ 2:43 pm

Connecticut is on the verge of changing one of the key financial underpinnings for residential solar electric systems.

Posted inEnergy & Environment

Lamont: ‘I don’t want to build Killingly’ Energy Center

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel January 19, 2021 @ 6:14 pmSeptember 4, 2022 @ 9:33 am

The governor hinted at slowing permitting and being able to “play some games there.”

Posted inEnergy & Environment

Food could hold the key to fixing the state’s waste disposal problems

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel January 11, 2021 @ 5:00 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:47 am

Getting food waste out of the trash may provide the key to fixing the dated waste systems in the state.

Posted inNews

Best of 2020: CT keeps losing power when storms strike. But that doesn’t have to happen.

Avatar photo by Jan Ellen Spiegel December 30, 2020 @ 12:03 amMarch 5, 2022 @ 12:46 am

Assigning blame for power outages misses the point. Instead, we should be figuring out how to keep the lights on.

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