If you take the CEO of Eversource’s word for it, then it may be a dangerously hard winter this year in New England.
“As both an energy company CEO and a lifelong New Englander, I am deeply concerned about the potentially severe impact a winter energy shortfall would have on the people and businesses of this region,” Eversource CEO Joseph Nolan wrote to President Joe Biden last week.
According to Nolan, the New England region simply does not have enough natural gas supply to meet energy needs in the event of a “severe cold spell” this winter.
“This represents a serious public health and safety threat. Consumers in New England are already experiencing skyrocketing electricity and gas costs given supply constraints and global price pressures following the Russian invasion of Ukraine,” he said.
About half of New England’s electric generation is powered by natural gas or liquid natural gas, commodities that are sold on the global market and subject to its whims.
In September, Massachusetts energy officials put residents on notice that the cost of heating their homes and keeping the lights on is likely to skyrocket this winter as the price of natural gas soars, potentially more than 60%.
“This winter will be, at best, a very high-cost energy winter,” Judy Chang, undersecretary of energy and climate solutions in the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs said then.
It could be worse than just high costs, though, Nolan wrote: the state could be facing a genuine emergency, caused in large part by the war in Europe.
“I respectfully urge you, Mr. President, to employ the emergency powers of the federal government to take all steps to ensure that adequate fuel resources will be available in the event of severe weather conditions in New England this winter,” Nolan wrote. “Because of the war in Ukraine, imported LNG is not available to the New England region in the volumes necessary to meet this winter’s needs without causing further stress on European markets and the American economy.”
The Biden Administration did not return a request for comment on the situation. A spokesperson for Eversource did not respond when asked whether the company had heard any response from the President or his staff.
According to Nolan, Biden needs to act now.
“To avert the potential loss of power to New England this winter, I ask you to direct the Secretary of Energy to convene all relevant parties to develop a plan to ensure the region is ready to meet the challenges one or more extreme winter weather events would present, using both the authorities available to the market participants and the federal government’s emergency authorities,” he wrote.
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If we don’t have enough natural gas to heat New England this winter it will be because Joe cut a 10% deal to sell much of it to Old England, New Biden Supported Ukraine, Germany and the rest of the world. Joe’s electrified brain already has proven that windmills like the Beany copter that he wears at night to recharge his hearing aid and brain waves are too unreliable a source, when mother nature takes revenge on gender disoriented unnatural people who think they know better than mothers how to raise their children and even mother nature on how to spend your money and expend your human life force in taxes and national debt. Soon all those New England trees that the environMENTALISTS sought to save will be cut down for heating fuel leaving vast wastelands of newly occupying illegal aliens whose deserts of tents will replace our former forests primeval due to the forests of Democrat American nut job evils visited upon an energy deprived democrat indoctrinated nation. Joe and the Democrats never act, but can only react to their Socialist policies disguised as American democratic. Innocent babes in arms are not the only things aborted by them, along with our moral American self-governing proven successful work ethics, formerly workable pragmatic Liberal educations, honesty in Constitutional government, Honesty in elections, and now the basic energy need to heat our homes in the winters of our pandemics of political discontents.
Bostonians may freeze in their homes, but they’re FIGHTING GLOBAL WARMING! That’s more inportant.
THEY VOTED for this nonsense.. LET THEM live with the ramifications of that decision.
I thought the cold was the result of global warming.
Not to worry, the White house will be kept warm, old people need more than the rest of us. Likewise, the Biden compound, has the security wall been built yet, will be kept warm for the same reason. As for the rest of the country we can look for deforestation of large tracts of land for fuel thanks to the green weenies!
its what they want to happen folks wake up to the sham.
as rush used to say don’t doubt me.
they will stop at nothing to destroy america and make it a socilaist hell
Let’s see. I must now start acclimating to the climate like my ancestors. I guess campfires will be the vogue this coming winter. Add to this the cost of food is making me now eat only the healthy stuff and the garbage foods are being removed forcing me to lose weight. (I like garbage foods.) Since I am forced to lose weight, I will need to make sure that it makes me healthier and I can wean off my cholesterol medication as well as my high blood pressure medication. I am getting the feeling that we are being prepped for a war as I do not believe they are doing it to make me a better person physically. I think this is a conspiracy theory i am having but it is something to think about.
I just got 200 gallons today which should carry me over to early Feb if I use it like last year. But I think my family is going to learn to acclimate. Unfortunately for me my normal method prohibits me from getting solar power replacement as that will cost me more to install and payoff does not give me an ROI until 17 years later. Besides it didn’t work well in Texas.
I wonder, how much woodlands, will get depleted, as folks cut wood for home heating?
The Climate Change chicken littles killed a gas pipeline that could have easily supplied natural gas from Pennsylvania to New England.