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.
Katie Dykes
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Climate change bills face the ticking legislative clock, again
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
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
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?
Some are frustrated with 10 years of programs that should have helped residents insulate themselves from spikes in energy costs.
Posted inGovernment
For CT’s environmental agency, Zoom was ‘the real hero’ of the pandemic
Despite some legislative setbacks, more work on environmental issues than initially anticipated got done over Zoom
Posted inEnergy & Environment
It looks like CT’s Transportation Climate Initiative bill is dead. Now what?
The legislature’s failure to pass TCI could test the state’s leadership role in battling climate change.
Posted inEnergy & Environment
Is it a plan to fight climate change, or a gas tax? The TCI is facing fierce pushback
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
Assigning blame for power outages misses the point. Instead, we should be figuring out how to keep the lights on.