How our electricity markets work

September 16, 2015

Ever wonder why we have a wholesale and retail electricity market?  What an RPS is and how it encourages renewables?  These and many other questions are answeres in a newly published document, Electricity Markets Primer, authored by the Conservation Law Foundation and the Boston Green Ribbon Commission. In ten chapters, this document aims to demystify how the New England's electricity markets work in a way that  lay people understand how it all works.  The document also reviews where and how environmentalists are working to transition our energy system away from fossil fuels and nuclear power.

Check it out!