This report investigates the impact on electricity prices in New England from the combination of three factors. They are the (1) region’s substantial dependence on natural gas as a fuel in its power plants, (2) way wholesale electricity prices are determined in real time via an auction-style bidding mechanism that occurs every five minutes of the day, and (3) consequences of volatility in the price of natural gas.

In “Home is Where the Pipeline Ends: Characterization of Volatile Organic Compounds Present in Natural Gas at the Point of the Residential End User,” HEET illuminates new evidence of chemical contamination in the natural gas delivered to homes.

Martyn Roetter’s “Utilities Offering Us a Trojan Horse” for Commonwealth Magazine (July, 2022) points to the “dirty, dangerous, and costly” impacts of hydrogen blending.