Acadia Center Submits Joint Comments Regarding Eastern Gas of MA and NSTAR’s Application for Supply Contracts
DPU 25-133 and 25-134 Joint Comments of CLF and Acadia Center
Acadia Center Submits Comments on Versant’s Proposed EEEJ Methodology and Recommended IGP Solutions
Acadia Center Comments on Versant’s EEEJ Considerations and Potential IGP Solutions
Specific comments include:
Tracking and Analysis of EEEJ Benefits
- Any evaluation of environmental justice impacts should involve a continuing dialogue with affected EJ communities, to ensure that the most important impacts – both positive and negative – are being captured in the metrics that Versant uses
- Versant should include a more comprehensive cost and benefits analysis in its alternatives evaluation to ensure the most valuable solution serving the most disadvantaged customers can be clearly identified.
- Versant should weave the EEEJ assessment tools throughout the other scorecard evaluations that Versant intends to perform such that there is a complete accounting of EEEJ considerations throughout the IGP solutions alternatives analysis.
Integrated Grid Plan Solutions Recommendations
- Acadia Center strongly supports the robust evaluation of non-wires alternatives (NWAs), including grid-enhancing technologies (GETs), in the solution sets that Versant evaluates
- Acadia Center also recommends that, when Versant evaluates NWA solutions, that those solutions not be evaluated in isolation, with each technology analyzed on its own, but rather in solution sets of multiple NWAs, as research has found that the concurrent deployment of multiple GETs can improve substantially over their individual effectiveness.
Comments on Proposed Final Decision in CT to Adopt IDSP
Some recommendations included on how the draft decision can be improved for the final decision are:
- requiring hourly forecasts for certain grid locations and upgrade considerations
- disaggregating load forecasts into more categories for easier interpretation
- adding specific, measurable equity criteria
The comments also support the initiation of a comprehensive gas-electric system planning docket to ensure that utilities proactively align both gas and electric system plans and investments with the state’s long-term decarbonization goals.
Acadia Center Issues Energy Efficiency Action Alert Regarding Proposed Cuts to the 2026 Rhode Island Programs
The below Energy Efficiency Action Alert shines a light on the harmful proposed program cuts currently being considered for Rhode Island’s 2026 Energy Efficiency Program.
- Proposed budget cuts of 30% will lose Rhode Island an estimated $92 million in benefits and contribute to higher inflation in the Rhode Island economy
- Rhode Island’s leading energy efficiency workforce will see significant job losses and reduced work hours, with up to 833 jobs at risk
- Energy efficiency is a key defense against rising energy costs – at a time when federal policies and programs are being gutted, Rhode Island must double-down on these energy savings programs
- Cuts are proposed despite strong continued benefits from efficiency, with benefit-cost ratios (BCRs) of 1.83 and 1.77 (electric, gas) – earning back much more in value for Rhode Island per dollar invested
- Families and businesses will have higher electric and gas bills in the coming years as a result of cuts
Acadia Center Energy Efficiency Action Alert
Acadia Center Comments on Second Draft of RI 2026 Annual Energy Efficiency Plan
Acadia-NEEP Comments on Second Draft of 2026 Energy Efficiency Plan
Comments on Rhode Island’s State Transportation Investments
RI Transportation Decarbonization Advocates_Comments on State Transportation Improvement Plan
Acadia Center Objection to the Companies’ Motion for Recusal
Acadia Center Objection to the Companies’ Motion for Recusal
Acadia Center Presentation to MA OET Decarbonizing The Peak (DTP) Expert Speaker Series
Acadia Center Presentation to MA OET – Transmission, Interconnection, Peak