Larry Chretien

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R.I. utility regulators approve 16% hike in winter electric rates starting Oct. 1 • Rhode Island Current Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission unanimously approve winter electric rates, cementing a 16% increase in average residential bills for the winter. Regulators are still considering additional di...

R.I. utility regulators approve 16% hike in winter electric rates starting Oct. 1 rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/09/26/r...

It's been really a group effort. State agency folks & advocates. But if no one else takes credit....

Pssst…. @unitil.bsky.social is now enrolling electricity customers for MA’s new Residential Heat Pump Rate.

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Trump claims offshore wind is worthless. This project proves the opposite is true. South Fork Wind, the U.S.’ first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, is demonstrating the folly of the Trump’s administration’s misguided war on offshore wind.

New York's South Fork Wind, America's first large offshore wind project, is generating electricity as at the same rate as New York's natural gas generators.

How's that for reliable power? (via @justingerdes.bsky.social)

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Cuts to Rhode Island energy-efficiency plan bad for residents, study… Rhode Island has long led on efficiency. A proposal to slash funding may cost the state $90 million in benefits — while saving each household less than $2…

What did I say this time?
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Sun Day Rhode Island SunDay is a global day of action on September 21st, 2025, celebrating the unstoppable rise of clean energy. We’ll come together to showcase the power of the sun and wind, the energy sources that can p...

We’re joining with events across the nation to celebrate the power of solar and wind energy! Sun Day Rhode Island is a family-friendly community event that will highlight the power of the sun and wind through art, play, and hands-on learning.

Visit actionnetwork.org/events/sun-d... to RSVP! #sunday

‘It’s Going to Hurt Us’: Trump Puts 15,000 Offshore Wind Jobs at Risk With Halt Orders Cesar Lima never gave much thought to the politics of offshore wind. Most days, the ironworker focused on his shift 15 miles out at sea, climbing turbines and watching dolphins gliding past his vessel off the coast of Rhode Island.

More than 15,000 prospective and current jobs tied to wind projects in New England are under threat from the potential shutdowns, according to a Bloomberg analysis

Here’s an idea. The west has held about $300 billion in Russian assets. They should release 2 billion a day to Ukraine until Russia stops the war, or they disperse it all.

Then Russia will have to accept the war has an additional real cost per day

Protect Whales From Deadly Entanglement Outdated fishing gear has been entangling, injuring, and killing marine creatures for years — including some whose species are endangered. Thankfully pop-up gear can save lives by protecting these maj...

Funny how we never hear #NewEngland anti- #offshorewind groups pushing for any action to prevent whales from being entangled in fishing gear like our friends at @biologicaldiversity.org are.

Maybe it isn't really about the whales?

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Bill McKibben has been writing about climate change for decades. He thinks solar can save us. - The Boston Globe In a new book, the legendary activist makes the case for optimism — if we work fast.

I spent some time with @billmckibben.bsky.social talking about solar energy and walked away with a feeling that I almost had forgotten about: hope.

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Fed up with ‘deceptive’ low energy price offers, Mass. threatens heavy fines on outside energy supplier - The Boston Globe The Massachusetts DPU proposes fining CleanChoice $5.1 million and revoking its license to sell electricity in the state.

While the third-party supplier industry claims its issues are limited to small "bad apples", the DPU is accusing one of the largest suppliers in the Commonwealth of multiple different kinds of fraud. #energy #masspoli

Fed up with ‘deceptive’ low energy price offers, Mass. threatens heavy fines on outside energy supplier - The Boston Globe The Massachusetts DPU proposes fining CleanChoice $5.1 million and revoking its license to sell electricity in the state.

The saga of Massachusetts v third party competitive suppliers continues, this time featuring some questionable mailers, rates that just keep rising, and a proposed $5 million fine.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/17/s...

Halting Revolution Wind could be a disaster for New England’s grid If Trump kills the now-frozen offshore wind project, utility customers will pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity.

“We’re buying 30 years of power at a fixed price, and it’s a good price,” he said. ​“The states have decided they want to buy this stuff.” By blocking completion of Revolution Wind, the Trump administration is ​“forcing fossil fuels down our throats”

Nicely said

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Ironically the acronym for Fossil Fuel Subsidies is FFS

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Energy Secretary Attacks Offshore Wind and Dismisses Climate Change

“These were permitted rather quickly,” Mr. Wright said. “If you do something fast and quickly.. bad things happen.”

But 'Vineyard Wind..applied for permits in 2017 and was approved in 2021. Revolution Wind went through nine years of federal and state reviews..'

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Halting Revolution Wind could be a disaster for New England’s grid If Trump kills the now-frozen offshore wind project, utility customers will pay more money for dirtier and less reliable electricity.

“We’re buying 30 years of power at a fixed price, and it’s a good price." By blocking completion of Revolution Wind, the Trump administration is ​“forcing fossil fuels down our throats.”
- Larry Chretien of Green Energy Consumers @larrychretien.bsky.social
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On Thurs 9/11 at noon, @geconsumers.bsky.social has a webinar on how #cleanenergy lowers your power bill. Speakers: Pat Knight of @synapseenergy.bsky.social & Susan Muller of @ucs.org. Hosted by @amandabarker22.bsky.social and @larrychretien.bsky.social.

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‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose Revolution Wind halt The Rhode Island offshore wind project, now nearly finished, employed 80 fishermen to help with construction. With Trump's pause, they are losing vital…

If you live in #RhodeIsland and follow @providencejournal.bsky.social, you might not know that there are pro-wind fisherman. But there are.

National & regional media are picking up the slack here for our state's "paper of record." #offshorewind

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What? The oil and gas industry couldn’t stop it?

Power prices are shaping up as a midterms flashpoint. Here are what's pushing bills higher (and what isn't)
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first interview I did as a baby journo was w/RFK Jr. about why he opposed Cape Wind (it was because it messed with the views from his family's compound, but he mumbled something about local fishermen). Brown University has done excellent research on this www.climatedevlab.brown.edu/post/against...

Turbine blades ready to be installed stopped; Rhode Island union work stopped; fossil fuel ocean pollution boosted.

📢 New report drop: Heat Pump Rates in Massachusetts
Heat pumps could cut bills for thousands of MA households—but only if the state gets the rates right. Right now, many heat pump users are being *overcharged* for their share of the grid. 1/🧵
🔗 www.switch.box/mahprates #energysky #climatesky

Trump didn’t call the National Guard when insurrectionists attacked the Capitol.

Now he’s deploying them to enforce his cruel anti-homeless agenda in D.C.

We need housing and dignity—not militarized streets.

The worst single-day crime spree in modern Washington history, of course, took place on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump issued no order to the National Guard to intervene -- Mike Pence did -- and later pardoned the perpetrators.

In MA, households with heat pumps were being overcharged by 23% each winter. Our report with Switchbox, @envdefensefund.bsky.social, et al found that @massdoer.bsky.social 2.0 rate would correct that, helping 82% of households save an average of $687 each heating season. www.switch.box/mahprates

Destenie Nock: Who pays the price for new data centers? Amazon plans to spend $20 billion building data campuses in Pennsylvania. Similar proposals are emerging across the state, from the sites of the old Cheswick and Homer City power plants to the Alcoa c...

New Op-Ed on data centers. Sprawling, windowless data centers are becoming fixtures of our landscape, popping up in towns, cities and suburbs. Demand has ballooned with the rapid growth of cloud computing and AI. But we need to understand the impact on households. triblive.com/opinion/dest...