High-energy cost has become attention. New England’s
governor held a meeting on Thursday and agreed to cut it. They thought that oil
and coal plants had to be retired in few years. To bring that in action, they
plan to use renewal energy such as solar and wind energy.
Five of six region governors attended the meeting.
Each brought their own objective and agreed to work across the region. The
agreement reached because it would involve a little bit of everything.
They were considering range of energy choices to
help energy cost. Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island are seeking
power purchase agreements for hydropower or other types of renewal energy in
one join effort. The Rode Island governor had proposed an infrastructure bank
to centralize financing for friendly environmental public works.
The Vermont regulators are considering transmission
lines that bring hydropower to transmission linking point to other areas in New
England. Due to the region limited natural gas pipeline systems, which reach
maximum capacity, make high energy cost. A construction is hard to take because
of environmentalists and some property
owners oppositions. The opposition do not stop there, some protester even criticized
the governor for advocating natural gas at an early session of the meeting.
This can be understood, the governor has spent a lot for natural gas system and
the bill will be stuck on ratepayers.