NStar wants to raise your electric rates 29%

Here's your friggin science:

OK, my take...the country is awash (in liquified form) in natural gas. New England isn't. Other governors in NE are bottlenecked, too. So, what's going on? Where's the gas to replace the shut down coal and nuke plants?
Faggetaboutit. Let's rely on windmills and bullshit.

http://www.necn.com/news/business/Massachusetts-El...

"Kinder Morgan is facing intense local and environmentalist opposition to its plan for a new 177-mile pipeline across the northern side of Massachusetts, costing about $3 billion, connecting to existing pipeline networks in Dracut. Northeast Utilities and Sempra Energy have proposed an alternative $3 billion plan to upgrade the capacity of existing pipelines that come through Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts and serve dozens of gas-fired electric generators. But it could be several winters before either plan clears federal approvals and gets built and put into operation."

http://www.masslive.com/business-news/index.ssf/20...

"Rising natural gas prices pushed wholesale electricity prices across the region up 55 percent in 2013, according to preliminary figures released this week by ISO New England."

For the NPR types here, news you can use:

http://www.npr.org/2014/11/05/361420484/new-englan...

"Between the years of 2000 and 2013, New England went from getting 15 percent of its energy from natural gas to 46 percent. That's dozens of power plants getting built.
But the pipelines to supply those power plants? Not so much.

"Distrigas, New England's only liquefied natural gas import terminal, is just north of Boston. Tony Scaraggi, the company's vice president of operations, says even with last year's frigid winter, New England only hit its maximum pipeline capacity for 40 days. "That's equivalent to like, two and a half to three LNG tankers coming in. So you gotta compare that to the cost of a $2 to $3 billion pipeline," Scaraggi says."

They love the nice expensive shipped gas.

""In New England, this winter, based on what's been recently trading, is likely to have the highest natural gas prices on planet Earth," says Taff Tschamler, chief operating officer of energy supplier North American Power."

"A plan from the six New England governors to subsidize bigger pipes was tabled recently when Massachusetts announced it wanted to study the question further before committing. Ultimately, whether electricity prices continue to rise in New England next winter and the winter after that will come down to weather. "At any rate, what I think we're hoping for is that the good Lord who protects drunks and the United States will also protect New England," says Peter Brown, an energy attorney with the law firm Preti Flaherty.
In other words, pray for a warm winter."

And lots of nice, expensive wind.

This state isn't only hanging ourselves, we're forcing the rest of New England to go along with us.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/09/29/ele...

"Heat suppliers – as well as factories and other industrial companies – get their gas under long-term contracts, locking in low rates for years at a time, experts say. They also buy plenty of it: Come winter, much of the gas that flows through the region’s two pipelines is used for heating. The scant amount that's left over goes to the electric generating companies, which bid against one another for the fuel."