The Facts: A Skyrocketing Energy Cost Crisis

• New England homeowners and businesses are suffering under higher energy costs than the rest of the country because we’re paying far more for the natural gas we need to generate electricity and heat our homes.

• Economists and the governors of all six New England states have recognized that the region needs as much as 2 billion cubic feet per day of new gas pipeline capacity in order to deliver the supply we need and lower the cost of energy.

• Small bite upgrades to existing pipelines won’t come anywhere near providing the 2 billion cubic feet per day of gas we need - only with a new pipeline directly to the Marcellus Shale can this urgently-needed supply and reliability be provided.

• A recent Boston Globe poll shows that a majority of Massachusetts voters support the expansion of a gas pipeline from western Massachusetts to Dracut with 52% in support and 28% opposed. 

• That new pipeline (proposed by the Tennessee Gas Pipeline Northeast Energy Direct Project) would connect Massachusetts consumers to the Marcellus Shale, the lowest cost natural gas in the world, less than 250 miles from Boston. 

• Gas from the Marcellus Shale would completely reverse the doubling of the cost of electricity per kWh now faced by Massachusetts consumers

• We need new pipelines for affordable gas and electricity. Our elected officials need to hear from New England families and businesses who can’t afford these elevated prices.

To learn more about this issue, check out the resources on this page and read more deeply into the background on New England’s energy cost crisis:

• NESCOE Reports 
• ISO New England
  • ​Recent Reports and Presentations
  • Special Reports on Lack of Gas Infrastructure/Winter 2013-14
  • Annual Reports
  • Monthly Reports
• Energy Information Administration
  • Reports related to New England’s Pipeline Constraints
  • Reports On Natural Gas and Renewables
  • Emergency Alerts
• FERC Reports
• Miscellaneous