So does net metering there get you pretty much a zero annual bill? In CT people are reporting doing very well so far with the deal

2000 sounds more like it. That makes more sense. Super, super low winter output though

Wow, I’m not only not an expert, I don’t own solar panels, but that sounds very low as to output from those panels. Something is wrong - with the panels? With the hours of sunlight per day? With the system set up? Something

“Until?” Your ignorance is so severe. Go study medicine instead of the Bible if you want to understand medicine and keep your spectral evidence out of our faces

Pretty much, yeah. I’m surprised the marginal difference in climate in MA makes such a huge difference. It’s too bad.

If you peruse the CT subreddit, you’ll find lots of people really happy with their solar systems reporting ridiculously low electric bills

Is your result similar to others in MA? If not, maybe have your system tested, maybe something is wrong

Correction, voluntary abortions. Necessary ones are performed all day every day in any sane medical setting throughout pregnancies that have taken a bad turn for whatever reason and these laws are now causing dangerous medical risks and even deaths. Why? So a bunch of insecure boys who think god promised them power can feel like they're somebody

D&C for a miscarriage -- happens every single day in this country except now it doesn't and women have died. Abortion law isn't only about voluntary terminations, when you outlaw abortion it absolutely affects all medical guidelines for any abortion procedure and that endangers womens lives and is not based on medical science but the witchhunts you probably call religion. So shove off

them. talking about us in the third person. not a men's locker room here, kid

You;re talking about women's reproductive health care rights and don't think it doesn't matter. You might as well come in here arguing dred scott, or rape as form of free speech or something. Women aren't going to be polite about attacks on their inalienable rights from an ignorant misogynist like you, so take a hike

get out

The interconnection queue at ISO NE is chock full of wind getting ready to connect and batteries. ISO has to fix its pricing bs though

In Connecticut, everyone is reporting great results from their solar arrays

Are you serious? Not even your lights and fridge? Jesus.

That's exactly right. So few people are aware of that. They refer to it as "discipline" and it is assisted by sophisticated pricing models

[EDIT: oops. I thought this comment was in the CT subreddit. Pardon me. ]

Only one of three reactors at Millstone is operating because we barely averted a meltdown that would have been our Chernobyl. Why? Because we trusted for profit companies not to mess with the engineers' designs in order to save some money and then we trusted them to tell the truth when they never did. Who was that company? Eversource, fka Northeast Utilities

Environmentalists didn't shut down Millstone, the Atomic Energy Commission did and then threw them over to Congress, which ripped them to pieces in public hearings

Yet they rose again, like mutant Phoenix larva from a radioactive ash heap. Behold, the corporation!

We already reserve oil at all the switchable plants in Connecticut. They are reqiured to reserve oil and every winter the gas plants here burn oil, on low temp days when homes using gas are turning the heat up - they come first.

So it's done every year, but last reports I checked, their reserves were much lower than usual

There is blame to go around to all parties, all of them. The corps are trying to come out on top and have worked against plenty of projects too because they don't serve their bottom line

I’m sure most of the natural gas power plants up in MA are dual fuel as well, and reserve oil for winter use.

They wanted us to pay for the pipeline too - all costs passed onto consumers, for an energy source we are trying to get away from in part. I think we will need it for quite some time but we are overly dependant on it. And don't forget who fought solar and even wind, at first, - NOT THE NIMBYs - the pipeline people, the utilities and even the folks at ISO NE

Our usage is already, as a state, one of the lowest per capita in the country

I think Biden should answer Nolan by dumping truckloads of solar panels on their front lawn

Possibly, sure.

It’s probably going to go for a lot because QEii just died

Yes, and many do

I’ll try to dig up the reports I was reading. They were from a variety of sources but one key report was an offshore wind report the Dept of Energy publishes. In particular, an offshore NY lease went ballistic, but they are all bringing in high bids.

Seeing this, and worried that these costs would be passed on to consumers (naturally), the auctions coming up in the mid Atlantic ( Carolina’s? Va? ) are trying to build in some protections and the DOE mentioned a rule change.

The end result is all the other offshore wind will protect consumers more than ours will.

Now, seeing the auction prices, which would reflect intense interest to get in on these projects, Eversource decided to sell its stake in our new offshore farm, the one that will be staging construction at the state pier in New London. They want to cash in. I am really concerned how that will impact consumers too. I’m actually planning on organizing the information and sending a letter to state officials about the proposed sale so they can ensure consumers don’t end up paying more because of that. Whoever buys it will pay more than Eversource put into it - making money on the deal is why Eversource wants to sell. I think we should get it somehow from Eversource, if we can but that’s probably a pipe dream. At the very least, Eversource should be forced to address this question and the AG and Pura, and legislators see what they can finagle to keep it from costing us more. Whoever buys it will want to make that money back.

Edit: it’s possible, maybe, the state can dictate some terms into any sale by Eversource as to how the future owner prices it’s kWhs so that we don’t get the brunt - what costs it can pass on. I don’t know

I really like heat pumps. I had those in the last place I rented. I think it’s really good to have a mix. Unfortunately New England needs a better mix

There have been warnings that under certain circumstances - cold snaps, maybe prolonged cold snap- we could have blackouts. ISO New England says that and always includes urging us to solve our energy problems. We do rely too much on two fuels.

Almost all the gas power plants in CT run on either gas or oil, and every winter the plants stock up on oil because with people heating homes with gas, it causes gas supply to get stretched. They switch to oil in the winter on cold days because of that. Supposedly their supplies of oil are below average this year. Last I looked in eia, the gov energy info site, this checked out, if I recall correctly.

I question the author’s assertion that we use a lot of imported oil (?) not sure where that comes from.

I think the article is probably right about a lot of it but seems to have gotten some details wrong and seems to be a panicky story. A little hyperbole.

We’re so late getting offshore wind going and the Quebec hydro line us way overdue too.

Unfortunately we are also screwing up the offshore wind so much that they’ve changed the auction rules to protect consumers more because of the crazy prices the leases went for here in NE.

It sucks, but someday we’ll figure out how to get this monkey off our back