Year after year, ISO New England (New England’s regional electric grid operator) announces the region may have inadequate energy supplies to power the entire electric system without blackouts during the winter. This leaves New Englanders stuck in a Groundhog Day scenario, asking: if this threat to the region’s electric grid happens every year, why hasn’t it been fixed by now? Join Acadia Center’s own Amy Boyd and Melissa Birchard as they pull back the curtain on this question and present the clean energy solutions we can look towards to finally solve this problem.

Date: Thursday, October 27
Time: 11 AM
Location: Zoom

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Amy Boyd is the Vice President, Climate & Clean Energy Policy at Acadia Center, based in the Boston office. She oversees Acadia Center’s work on advancing climate policy, electrifying buildings and transportation, and transitioning to clean energy sources throughout the Northeast. Amy holds Acadia Center’s seat on the Massachusetts Energy Efficiency Advisory Council, a stakeholder board that works with utilities to carry out their mandate to purchase all cost-effective energy efficiency.

Melissa Birchard is Acadia Center’s Director, Clean Energy & Grid Transition. Melissa directs Acadia Center’s work to accelerate deployment of clean energy and build a clean power grid, including pressing for modernization of the electricity system and reforms at ISO-New England (ISO-NE). Melissa has published an explainer about New England’s winter reliability challenges and presented as a panelist on this subject.