A blunt-speaking FERC Commissioner from Pennsylvania called out New Englanders for political correctness on energy and its price.

The RTO Insider recently posted a fascinating article where a FERC Commissioner from Pennsylvania told New England to knock it off and stop importing Russian Gas. FERC Commissioner Robert Powelson told them to get over their “aversion to new energy infrastructure” and build pipelines to deliver domestic produced natural gas.

New England has some of the highest energy costs in the United States and there is a very simple solution to help solve this problem and get them away from buying expensive Russian gas. With Pennsylvania only 200 miles away, the solution seems obvious, build the infrastructure needed to deliver their relief; affordable Pennsylvania natural gas. Here are some excerpts from the RTO Insider piece:

FERC Commissioner Robert Powelson said last week that New England needs to overcome its aversion to new energy infrastructure to avoid natural gas shortages in the winter.

“You all burned 2 million barrels of oil during this recent bomb cyclone,” Powelson said at Raab Associates’ 157th New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable on Friday. “We didn’t do that in Pennsylvania; we burned a lot of natural gas, we ran economic nuclear plants and we integrated renewables with close to 1,400 MW of wind capacity.”

Read more:

http://naturalgasnow.org/ferc-commissioner-tells-new-england-get-it-together/