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The federal government is giving New England $389 million to improve the electrical grid. Connecticut officials say that will mean cheaper, cleaner electricity in the long run.

Paredes cites the school’s lack of communication on specific plans to rely more on clean energy and stop investing in non-renewable energy companies as the reason for potential student protests.

A new report assessing the state of Connecticut’s environment says solar installations rose in 2022, which is helping to lower carbon emissions. But the report found those same solar installations are also complicating some efforts to conserve agricultural land.

State Sen. Norm Needleman, co-chair of Connecticut's legislative Energy and Technology Committee, said forces beyond the control of the two utilities are requiring them to raise electric rates this winter.

The grid operator’s report shows wind power could play a much larger role in the future.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions from existing power plants.

Katie Dykes, Connecticut’s commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, earlier this month got onboard with a two-year delay for a key component of her pet project — reforming the New England electric grid.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has agreed to a request by the regional electric grid operator — ISO-New England — to keep the proposed natural gas power plant in Killingly out of its future plans.

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