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ISO New England briefs Senate Natural Resources & Energy on grid reliability, markets and planning
Summary
ISO New England staff told the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee how the regional operator runs the grid, administers wholesale markets and plans for future reliability as states electrify, describing imports, transmission investments, and how behind‑the‑meter solar and EV charging affect peaks.
ISO New England staff presented an overview of the regional power system to the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee, outlining the grid operator’s three core roles—real‑time reliability, wholesale market administration and longer‑term system planning—and describing how state clean‑energy goals and customer‑side resources affect reliability planning.
Sarah Adams, senior state policy advisor for ISO New England, told the committee the organization “operate[s] the grid and we keep it reliable 20 fourseven, 365,” and said the ISO also runs the region’s wholesale markets and produces planning studies that look at least 10 years ahead. Adams emphasized the ISO is “technology and fuel neutral” under its tariff and that it does not set retail rates, own transmission assets, issue permits or control fuel‑infrastructure such as natural‑gas pipelines.
Adams said New England has about 9,000…
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