New England Power Grid Operator Budgets Soaring

According to Ludlow, inflation of 3-4 percent a year accounted for a good portion of that 30 percent rise in ISO-New England’s budget over five years. U.S. Inflation Calculator.com estimates that the period actually averaged 1.6 percent annual inflation. “It raises real questions for me,” William Dornbos, the Connecticut director of the energy activist group Acadia Center, said of the 30 percent rise in ISO-New England’s revenue over five years.

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