National Grid

[GeoffD]

My dominant energy cost is natural gas for heating plus NG use for hot water, clothes dryer, and range. I'm held hostage by the pipeline surcharges.


The problem is the endless lawsuits stopping the HydroQuebec line to Massachusetts. You do that, add offshore wind, and the natural gas pipeline capacity problem goes away. Our electricity starts moving towards renewables which is what we want.

[OutdoorLover]

Originally Posted by GeoffD

My dominant energy cost is natural gas for heating plus NG use for hot water, clothes dryer, and range. I'm held hostage by the pipeline surcharges.


The problem is the endless lawsuits stopping the HydroQuebec line to Massachusetts. You do that, add offshore wind, and the natural gas pipeline capacity problem goes away. Our electricity starts moving towards renewables which is what we want.

I wasn't familiar with the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) project, thanks for highlighting that. What I find in web searching early on is kind of discouraging though. MA utility companies have a contract with Hydro-Québec and Central Maine Power to receive the hydroelectric power. Central Maine Power either owns or has state leases on the land that will be used for transmission. Seems pretty straightforward and like everything would be good to go, but various organizations in Maine seem to be opposing the project anyway - whether it's resentment of other states and not wanting them to benefit from the project, anger because they don't feel Maine is getting enough benefits, or environmental objections... it's already been delayed for a few years.

If people oppose nuclear power, coal power, natural gas power and hydroelectric power, it doesn't leave many alternatives, and wind and solar are nowhere near ready to meet 100% of energy needs today. *sigh*

[BostonMike7]

Only going to get worse with mandated EV adoption.

[OutdoorLover]

Originally Posted by BostonMike7

Only going to get worse with mandated EV adoption.

Hopefully this gets sorted before any restrictions like that begin to bite. It's very frustrating. I mean, I am a big proponent of increasing wind and solar, but it's just a fact that they won't be ready to take over all power generation for decades yet. It's not only insufficient capacity, there's the challenges from them being intermittent sources of power - which is fine so long as they are part of a larger portfolio with more consistent, controllable power sources, but you can't have solely wind and solar today.

[Louisville Slugger]

So according to National Grid's PDF this electricity supply cost increase has been almost as big as in 2014 - 2015:



https://www.nationalgridus.com/media.../resitable.pdf

I am locked in at 9.709 ¢/kWh through my town's community choice program until November 2023.

I'll probably use close to 5,200 kWh between 11/01/21 and 04/30/22. This will vary depending on how cold of a winter we have.

~$771 at 14.821 ¢/kWh
~$505 at 9.709 ¢/kWh

$266 difference over 6 months or a little over $44 saved per month.

I'd also like to mention if anyone has the Mitsubishi MSZ-FH09, MSZ-FH12, MSZ-FH15, or MSZ-FH18 wall mounted Hyper-Heating mini split indoor units, Power Equipment Direct has decent prices on the anti-allergy filters:

https://www.powerequipmentdirect.com...-E/p68435.html

I just replaced one in my unit that was coming up on three years old. Very fast shipping.