SPECTRUM NEWS • December 17, 2021
New England oil and gas companies are calling on states like Maine to pause their climate change-driven incentives for electric heat pumps, citing concerns from the region's power grid manager about shortages of fuel to keep the lights and heat on this winter. But the nonprofit that runs the grid, ISO-New England, said its concerns are not driven by states' efforts to install more heat pumps in place of climate-warming fossil fuels. And climate policy leaders in Maine and beyond called the fossil fuel companies’ request regressive and unwarranted.