Escalating New England Transmission Costs and the Need for Policy Reforms

Transmission policy should coordinate with the advances states are making in furthering efficiency and demand side energy solutions. It should incorporate efforts to help consumers use energy more efficiently, embrace the exciting potential offered by new energy technologies and the need to increase our reliance on clean, renewable power and other distributed resources. The grid of the past – and the outdated process used to determine new investments – must change if we are to have a system that can take the northeast into a competitive economic future and a clean, low carbon energy era.