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The plant owner has been negotiating with Eversource and United Illuminating to secure higher priced power purchase agreements, according to local news reports.
A report estimates the United States will need transmission investments of $30 billion to $90 billion by 2030, and significantly more in the decades which follow.
Achieving grid reliability and resilience that meet customer needs will require a culture shift within regulatory agencies and grid operators away from reliability-at-all-costs and toward reliability-at-the-right-cost.
Customers are subsidizing coal plants with more than a billion dollars a year, the Union of Concerned Scientists analyst says, thanks to market rules that allow monopoly-owned plants to choose when they generate electricity.
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