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Jon Lamson

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Reporter covering the New England power industry for RTO Insider/NetZero Insider. I wish was a headlight on a northbound train.

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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
not a huge fan of their music but respect their artistic integrity
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys with special guest Doc WatsonLive at the White House 1980
YouTube video by Performances moving to Homespun Music Instruction!
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Bill Monroe rolling in his grave over the Donroe doctrine
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Thanks Josh, what a game!
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
@jtkantor.bsky.social hi josh! Not feeling like Joel tonight, any chance you could try Hide and Seek by Billy Strings? Thanks so much!!
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Many are saying Train are the modern day Billy Joel
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🙏
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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Drought, Climate Drive Uncertainty on New England Imports from Québec
The impending addition of new export commitments could challenge Hydro-Québec over the next few years if drought conditions persist.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Ultimately, short- and long-term precipitation trends in Québec likely will have a significant effect on how much power New England will be able to import from the province. Story is linked below for @rtoinsider.bsky.social
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The company has signed long-term contracts to send large amounts of power Mass. and New York, set to take effect over the next year. However, Quebec has faced drought conditions and declining water levels since 2023, contributing to a large reduction in the amount of power it sends to the US.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I've got a new story up today looking into how much hydropower Hydro-Quebec will be able send to New England in the coming years, and how climate change will affect Quebec's power supply long-term.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
BRENDER AND EDDY!! thanks Josh you’re the best
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
🙏🍝🍻✨💍💔
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
@jtkantor.bsky.social what’s your favorite scene from scenes from an Iranian restaurant?
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Yea that’s a great part. Don’t forget the water bed
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
What about just the “cold beer hot lights part” it really speaks to me at a deep level
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Article linked here: www.rtoinsider.com/104125-massa...
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Massachusetts Lawmakers Focusing on Energy Affordability in 2025
Massachusetts policymakers are facing hard questions about balancing decarbonization with energy affordability.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Finally, as the Trump administration targets state climate policies, the state may face hard questions about how to maintain its clean energy transition throughout an administration hostile to clean energy. Read the full story here:
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Lawmakers also could consider altering the mechanisms for funding policy initiatives currently funded through volumetric charges in utility rates, and climate advocates hope the state will take additional steps to discourage long-term investments in the state's gas network.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Under the umbrella of affordability, advocates and lawmakers are looking at banning or reforming direct-to-consumer competitive electricity supply practices, a key issue which was not addressed in the state's 2024 bill.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
However, there seems to be a significant push for energy affordability bill in the wake of high gas prices this past winter. The Healey administration is preparing to file an affordability bill soon, which may serve as a starting point for discussions.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
New story out previewing climate and energy in Massachusetts' 2025-2026 legislative session. The state has passed significant new laws in each of the past three sessions and work still needs to be done to implement these laws, so it may be a quieter this time around.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Raising awareness and taking issue with the fact that there are separate utilities named ComEd and Con Ed. Surely we can do something about this.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
It gets a bit into the weeds, but hopefully is worth reading if you're interested in this type of thing. Check it out here @rtoinsider.bsky.social: www.rtoinsider.com/94200-ces-rps/
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Mass. Clean Energy Trust Funds Grow amid Project Financing Challenges
Massachusetts agencies are facing a massive influx of alternative compliance payments from electricity suppliers.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I spoke with quite a few people about what the state is/should be doing with the ACP money, potential issues with the state's electricity standards, and what role the standards should play in the clean energy transition going forward.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
These payments go directly to the state and serve as a cap on the market to protect ratepayers when the prices of renewable energy certificates get too high.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
While the standards are intended to provide an additional revenue stream to clean energy owners and developers, electricity suppliers can also meet the requirements with APCs.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I've got a new story up about how alternative compliance payments (ACPs) for Massachusetts clean electricity portfolio standards have accumulated in a pair of state trust funds, which grew to over $500 million in 2024, compared to about $56 million in 2020. (1 of 5)
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Energy and Policy Institute @energyandpolicy.org · 11/12/2024
Private jet trips. Massages. Professional sport games. Not the perks of being a millionaire, but instead an executive or staff member at some of the top utilities across the country. And customers are paying the price. New report from EPI: energyandpolicy.org/report-utili...
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Power Trip: How utilities use customer money to fund lobbying, corporate branding, and luxury lifestyle expenses
Utilities seek to charge customers for lobbying, corporate advertising, and unnecessary expenses that do not benefit customers.
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ecoRI News @ecorinews.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Brown University report finds that expertise from nationwide opponents of renewables offers scripts and guidance to local anti-wind activists. ecori.org/report-anti-...
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Report: Anti-Wind Groups in Southern New England Parrot Views of Fossil Fuel-Backed Right-Wing Think Tanks - ecoRI News
A new paper researching anti-wind funding by an institute at Brown University mostly bypasses images of monetary payoffs by outside forces.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
For those interested in transmission in New England, I dug through and summarized the comments submitted on the first round of ISO-NE's new longer-term transmission planning process, which is just getting started. @rtoinsider.bsky.social www.rtoinsider.com/93235-stakeh...
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ISO-NE Stakeholders Respond to Potential Long-term Transmission RFP
Stakeholders expressed widespread support for the goals of NESCOE’s proposed procurement of transmission solutions in Maine and New Hampshire,
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Check out the full story here @rtoinsider.bsky.social: www.rtoinsider.com/92084-avangr... (9/9, thanks for sticking with me)
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Avangrid Sues NextEra over ‘Scorched-earth Scheme’ to Stop NECEC
Avangrid is accusing NextEra Energy of conducting an “exclusionary and anticompetitive scheme” to stop a major transmission project.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I'm curious if the Mass. Attorney General's Office will take action on behalf of ratepayers in the state. The delay appears to have cost ratepayers well over $500 million, along with a likely increase in power system emissions. The AGO declined to comment, so we'll see. (8/9)
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Transmission expansion will be crucial to the clean energy transition, so clean energy advocates would be smart to learn from this fight. (7/9)
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The saga outlines one of the key challenges for transmission development in the region and in the country: incumbent generators can use a wide range of regulatory, legal, and political mechanisms to gum up the development process, potentially delaying or blocking projects. (6/9)
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Avangrid alleges damages of at least $350 million, and is seeking three times the damages, plus interest and legal costs. (5/9)
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The lawsuit includes a long list of accusations, including "overt acts that constitute monopolization, attempted monopolization, civil conspiracy, intentional interference with contract, sham petitioning, dark-money deception, and false and misleading statements." (4/9)
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
NextEra owns several large generation resources in the region and has almost certainly profited from the higher wholesale electricity costs that have resulted from NECEC's delay. (3/9)
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Avangrid (the Tx developer) has sued NextEra for antitrust violations, alleging that the company has committed "anticompetitive, unfair and deceptive business practices to foreclose competition for the supply of wholesale electricity on the ISO New England marketplaces." (2/9)
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Major news last week on the New England Clean Energy Connect transmission line, which has been delayed by over three years from its initial in-service date. (1/9)
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
With the news of the Mass House finally passing the climate bill, here's my coverage from a couple weeks ago @rtoinsider.bsky.social. I'll have an update out Monday, but the bill remains the same. You can get past the paywall by signing up with a business email: www.rtoinsider.com/90583-massac...
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I'm back on Bluesky. Hello.
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RTO Insider @rtoinsider.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
A hilly peninsula prior to colonization, the city began the labor-intensive process of removing its hilltops to fill in the surrounding coves, marshes and mud flats at the end of the 18th century. #energysky🔌💡 See Full Story: ow.ly/OAwL50RFbmy Writer: Jon Lamson
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Sara Sneath @sarasneath.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
New: Bombshell documents discovered through a public records request show oil companies can pay $5 million to vote on LSU's Institute for Energy research thelensnola.org/2024/04/19/l...
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LSU's fossil-fuel partnerships | The Lens
For $5 million dollars, Louisiana’s flagship university will let an oil company help choose which faculty research projects move forward. Or, for $100,000, a corporation can participate in a research ...
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Utilities and the biofuels industry want the standard to apply to a wide range of fuel options, while climate groups want to keep the focus on electrification. While the state has indicated that it favors electrification, the program is far from finalized. Full story here: ow.ly/2CRr50QXjVA
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Massachusetts Clean Heat Standard Reignites Debate over Biogas
Massachusetts Clean Heat Standard Reignites Debate over Biogas
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Many of the arguments that dominated the Massachusetts DPU's "Future of Gas" proceedings about the role of alternatives gases versus electrification have resurfaced in the state's development of a clean heat standard...
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
A new report finds that building new homes all-electric will save homeowners quite a bit of money in Massachusetts. Advocates say this is further reason for the state to ban the construction of most new fossil buildings. Full story here: www.rtoinsider.com/70946-report...
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Report Outlines Cost Savings of All-electric Buildings in Mass.
Report Outlines Cost Savings of All-electric Buildings in Mass.
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Jon Lamson @jonlamson.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
The recommendations, and how different members of the working group voted on various proposals, broadly show that state agencies and advocacy groups are pushing to redefine the program focus away from new gas investments, while the gas utilities are pushing to limit the scope of GSEP reforms.
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