New England faced an electricity emergency Christmas Eve; the lights stayed on, but the price of power skyrocketed more than eightfoldThe problems, in particular a lack of adequate natural gas caused by pipelines in other parts of the country freezing in the brutal cold, affected utilities all along the East Coast.
I continue to be wary of natural gas. We’ve asked to switch to Medford community electricity aggregation as our supplier, which is supposed to source from 100% renewable resources (which is lucky because National Grid raised rates by 64%), but due to the pooled nature of electricity distribution (which is good overall), I guess we can still be affected by gas pipeline problems, if not prices.