Winter Reliability Program News Today

Connecticut’s first-ever Comprehensive Energy Strategy, released 10 years ago, was built around natural gas. Gas was cheap, plentiful and cleaner than oil or coal. It was touted as a bridge from those fuels to renewables for electric power, and better than oil for heating. The CES set out to convert hundreds of thousands of homes to gas heat. But that strategy came with a big red flag, now all too familiar.

Spiking winter energy prices are the result of a crisis that has been a decade in the making, after New England opted to bet on natural gas.

The combination of brutal winters and bad planning has left New England vulnerable to a complete grid collapse, and the region isn’t doing much to improve its situation

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero