National Grid and Eversource are the two major electricity providers for Massachusetts. Both companies have notified the Department of Public Utilities (DPU) that rates for electricity are about to skyrocket.
National Grid has announced a 64% increase in electricity rates effective November 1st. While Eversource is on a different schedule, they too have announced an increase in natural gas rates of 38% on November 1st and the January 1, 2023, electricity rate will be announced in the next few weeks. Eversource is anticipated to announce a similar rate increase to National Grid. WATCH:
Both major power companies rely on natural gas to create electricity. Thanks to Joe Biden’s energy policies, which includes the massive export of natural gas in LNG form, domestic prices for natural gas have skyrocketed and will continue increasing as production is further shut down by regulation.
We are helping the EU survive their sanction driven energy crisis by sending them natural gas (LNG format), while simultaneously forcing Americans to pay more in order to maintain the EU export. Everything about the process is FUBAR.
Massachusetts – […] National Grid said the monthly bill of a typical residential customer using 600 kilowatt-hours of electricity will increase from $179 last winter to about $293 this winter, an increase of about 64%. National Grid said the delivery portion of electric bills will basically remain flat.
“National Grid buys electricity on behalf of its customers from the wholesale power market through a regulatory approved process established 20 years ago. That process has served customers well over the years and provides flexibility for unforeseen events, like limited supplier response to solicitations. But things have fundamentally changed,” Helen Burt, the company’s chief customer officer, said in a statement. “Today, under a sustained, high market price environment, it is challenging to maintain affordable prices. Given that, we think it’s a good time to work with our regulators and other stakeholders to review the process and electricity supply dynamics in the region, with an eye toward reducing price volatility and maintaining a secure, reliable and resilient energy system for the future.”
The company also announced that its natural gas rates are expected to rise on Nov. 1. They said they have a pending proposal with the state Department of Public Utilities that would result in the monthly bill for an average Boston Gas residential heating customer using 115 therms per month of $278, an increase of $50, or 22%, compared to last winter’s rates.
Eversource, the state’s other major electric provider, said in an email that it is on a different schedule than National Grid for setting its electric rates so no increases are currently planned.
“We file electric base service rates twice per year with the DPU,” company spokesman Chris McKinnon said. “Our last change was on July 1, 2022 and our next change will be January 1, 2023, which we will be filing for in the coming months.”
Over the border in New Hampshire, Eversource announced in July that electric rates would be doubling for many residents due to higher natural gas prices fueled in part by the war in Ukraine.
Eversource did announce Wednesday that it has submitted a proposal to the Department of Public Utilities seeking to raise its natural gas rates. They said their average residential customer using 126 therms of gas a month would see an increase of about 38%, or $86 on their natural gas bill over last winter. Those rate increases would take effect Nov. 1. (read m0re)
There are consequences to stolen elections.
Zuckerberg has lost $71 Billion dollars. Wonder if he is sorry about his Zuck Bucks?
I won’t be happy till his fortune goes to ZERO
He deserves the worst. Maybe when he’s sharing a toilet on the corner of Lombard with his benefactors, will I feel he’s reaped what he has sewn.
He is … a nasty seamstress
Anyone supporting fakebook IS the problem.!!!
Funny how satan deceives to steal, kill, and destroy.
Mental illness seems to run elites aka democraps
The goal is de-population worldwide!
Agreed, but what does it really mean?
He still has $50 billion?
He dropped down on that billionaire list, but how does that really effect him?
What’s really mind boggling is that, believe it or not, there are actually some who like the puppet and think the regime is doing a good job.
I have learned something about “progressives” and mass manipulation over the last few years.
They believe that collapsing the western economy is the necessary price to pay for saving the environment, and now “saving democracy in eastern Europe”.
Living in their comfy bubble, with soft hands that have known no physical work or hardship, they have no idea what that will bring.
Maybe the mass psychosis of mass marijuana use in blue states is a factor.
That is what “the media” says that they think …
But remember: the purpose of a “public opinion poll” is to INFLUENCE public opinion, not to MEASURE it. To tell all the Lemmings: “Go over there! The cliff is thataway!”
“Don’t worry about starving to death junior, We’ll freeze to death long before that”.
81million who voted for pedo in chief. Enjoy your utopia.
do Dominion machines, cemeteries, fictional personas, and vegetative oldies care?
Hope my moonbat siblings enjoy the winter up there this year…….they voted for it…..sooooo glad I left years ago for a freer florida!
My clueless siblings are victims of mass psychosis from the reading of the New York Times and listening to NPR in the car. Oh I forgot the evening news show on PBS, used to be the Jim Lehrer Report. I called the NYT “good for compost” and was met with real anger at my comment.
Yesterday my husband and I xercised our freedom from mass psychosis by going fishing. Yes, we caught! Salmon for the table and the freezer. We are in blue WA state but go the Florida in our minds all the time.
C’mon man, there only going up an inch.
My Massachusetts cousins haven’t spoken to me for 2 years plus because Trump, so I find this amusing. They have drunk the Kool Aid big time. I think they need a comeuppance.
Speak to them………..and rub their noses in it.
Dec-Feb send a copy of your gas bill and a JPEG of your thermostat set at 72…
I would love to hear how MA Liberals will rationalize this to cover for Biden’s stupidity & incompetence regarding US energy policies while they are freezing at sub-zero temperatures this winter and skipping Christmas so they can pay their upcoming heating bills. Will they pat themselves on the back for their sacrifice for “Mother Earth”? Liberals usually attribute the skyrocketing inflation to “Putin’s war in Ukraine”. It would be entertaining to hear their specific explanation for this cause & effect. LOL.
Yes they will, all you need to do is tune in to Boston dot com for confirmation
They will figure something out to blame it on. Their answer will be to go more to the left politically. One cannot shame a liberal and they will never, ever correlate their current condition to their voting patterns. Just look at California.
Since I live in Massachusetts I can tell you exactly what their rational is: they just call us racists. Even one of my sisters said I was a racist because I used the word plandemic. Funny how Psaki used the same word weeks later, but somehow that was okay…. It’s Bizzaroworld here. Nearly all of my neighbors spoke highly of Trump, yet the state goes blue. I’m convinced that stealing elections was perfected here in Massachusetts. Where else can a gay guy lose an election because he has the wrong letter after his name?
Lifelong Mass resident here and outside of the 10 cities it’s a red state. Mostly normal not partisan people here.
Rural N.Y. is also red.
Eric on Youtube’s South Main Auto lives upstate. He calls NY the “People’s Republic”.
Unfortunately NY is mostly controlled by one square mile in Manhattan. Go above Poughkeepsie and they hated Cuomo and hate Hochul.
The entire country is like that, literally………:)
People that work for a living vs. people that vote for a living. Densely populated areas (cities and college campuses) vs. areas where people want to be left alone to provide for themselves.
60 years in the state myself. Not Sure what you are counting as cities, incorporated city limits or metro areas. Regardless, “red” persons are a distinct minority almost everywhere. Reds have higher numbers in the remote parts of the state then they do in more built up areas, but it is far from accurate to say they dominate outside of the cities. There appear to be pockets in central mass, the southern Berkshires, and Bristol County. That is about it.
https://www.wbur.org/news/2020/11/03/2020-massachusetts-election-map
The rot in that state is deep rooted. The string of Republican Governors were all RINOs. As far as I am concerned, Massachusetts is as hopeless and unredeemable as California
Same for IL!
That is most every state. Go South and West of Trenton in New Jersey and there are plenty of Conservatives. Go outside Philadelphia and Allegheny County in Pittsburgh and it’s all red.
I have the same issue! I’ve been frozen out by liberal friends and family!
It blows my mind because I stoically listened to their political insanity for decades and simply minded my own business. I was able to compartmentalize their politics from what I loved about them. But they are unable or unable to do that for me.
To this day it shocks me to now know what they really think of me and how disposable I was to them. it’s sad.
Think of it this way….you are free. It’s as simple as that.
You could ask them how they feel about Pocahontas now since she is a key advisor to the administration?
This is the price they will pay for refusing the illegal aliens they claim to advocate. We are all paying the price, especially in housing.
Massachusetts = mental illness. The entire state is sick beyond belief. May they drown in their snotty attitudes!
I’m from Ma and we’re not all idiots! FJB
A used Tesla is going to get cheaper. You’ll be charging it with a diesel generator, at least till they are banned.
CET, some of the new remote EV charging stations are off the grid. The use diesel generators: 20 gallons to charge one Tesla…
There may well be times when that looks economical as primary charging. I’m looking for a nice old emp proof 300CD.
Yep, mechanical diesel is the way to go. Some of the older ones can do either electric or manual shutoff.
Here’s a shot of a Plaid with its charging trailer….. that guy did a drag and drive series with the car so charging was critical…
Gotta opine those Teslas are impressive. That one ran 9’s in the 1/4 mile at nearly 150mph
All well and good … but I have range anxiety as cringeworthy as … well … “shrinkage”. Don’t want to be caught naked after a chilly dip in Lake Tahoe … or have my Tesla limp halfway up the Sierra. Every second at 150mph is eating the battery away at 5x the base rate at 60 mph.
Note to Tesla drivers … stay in the damn right lane! The “basic speed law” reads: “SlowER traffic Keep right”
Yes….heat those buildings to only 58 degrees. Should be enough to keep water lines from being frozen – and no hot water either.
We are complaining about a 64% hike in energy yet our SOVEREIGNTY itself is being destroyed. Illegal aliens, Cruz caving to the left on censorship, the Electoral Count Act being gutted.
We are in big trouble.
All part of the design.
So many things sabotaging the republic so fast that we can’t keep up.
Its the same idea exploited by the Germans with their WWII blitzkrieg.
Its raining sabotage all over now, actually accelerating. Have you noticed?
Winter is coming, and we need all the firewood we can stack in order to stay warm. One day, you look out the window and see Biden & Co. selling-off the firewood to passers-by and sticking the money in their pockets.
They see you in the window and laugh at the look on your face. After all, what are you going to do about it? Cut more firewood, slave! Chop-chop!
More outrageous than this, to me anyway, is the fact that other Americans will happily defend this behavior. They will literally take up arms against anyone who tries to stop the parasites from stealing our resources.
Hang on John,
We need your timber and your natural gas exports over here in Europe. How will we “save the planet” from that terrible global warming if you guys stop sending your wood pellets and ngl over?
I seem to remember one of your wonderful Presidents saying that the price of electricity ‘necessarily sky rocket ‘ as he set out to be the Saviour of the planet.
So he was also a prophet then
Sarc off.
Who needs those Georgia Pine forests anyway. They just block the view …
Tnis is what passes for n “environmentalist” today. Just clear cut for Euro-pellets … because it’s “carbon neutral” … yeah … and your feces don’t stink …
Glad I don’t live in MA anymore. There is a silver lining to this. Who is going to buy into the EV nonsense when the cost of electricity is going through the roof?
“ Who is going to buy into the EV nonsense when the cost of electricity is going through the roof?”
The same MA idiots who voted for FJB and believe Liz Warren is Native American.
The slack jawed public believe EV’s run on magic dust. What? A massive electric bill? I thought my ecar was bypassing all those gasoline stations? Hahahahaha … suckers!
the cost of electricity with questionable availability….you MAY have to pay more to charge your Tesla if the power grid is up
Mayor Pete, of course.
He is such a slut … servicing the Green New Dealers
“their [Europeans] sanctions driven” … excuse me, but the sanctions are wholly and totally driven by the US! The ignorant and low-IQ EU politicians are just tagging along, dazed and confused. Genius move by US though – as this will lead to stronger USD and an influx of EU businesses migrating to the US.
The EU is submitting to US strong-arming.
They have to, to get US military weapons and support, along with the global dollar cartel and IT/internet hegemonies (even as they decline).
It is the US that is pushing all this.
Can we ask “why”? Or does that make us “threats to democracy”?
Maybe they should start paying more attention to “BRICS.” To the idea of it …
The USA *WAS* a manufacturing powerhouse that came to the world’s rescue … “Eighty Years Ago.” But it is just a Rust Belt now. Its arrogance and hubris hasn’t changed, but its economic sovereignty is now completely gone. Europe is still used to “following the piper.” But, what has this allegiance done for them lately?
Why are you all still blindly following a nation that doesn’t know where it’s going? A now-flabby country that now “couldah been a contendah?”
Hell, “the Cold War” is also long-ago history now. And what did it ever do for anyone either, other than military industrialists who made a fortune from uranium?
Anyone who is sufficiently determined (and still autonomous) can create “an alternative,” and BRICS is simply the first to do so. This is never actually going to be “a ‘uni’-polar world.” Europe could become “a third alternative,” but only if it can think for itself.
As a resident of the UK all I can say is that your prices are insanely cheap. I pay 150 dollars a month on electricity with a separate bill for gas.
Couple hundred a month here in Mass during summer months when we crank the central ac down to 70. That is just the electric bill. Gas Bill cranks up to $200+ a month in winter to keep heat on
So according to the article, you’re going to be paying about $325 a month this winter. It’s BOHICA time.
I pay over $200 a month for electric and average over $200 a month for gas. I’m will not be able to afford any price hikes.
Starve or freeze? Your choice as to how you *ahem* … volunteer … to fight climate change? Don’t you want EXTREME weather to stop? Of course you do. AOC has told you that you do.
I will not be able to afford any price hikes.
Just think: They. Don’t. Care.
That’s what we pay in SW Pennsylvania. Water can run as high as 300 a month.
While I have no information on what price hedging strategies the companies may be using, the spot price of natural gas [value as of date specific] was $4.95 per million BTUs on November 1, 2021. The price today is $8.01. That is a 62% increase in the cost of natural gas delivered to the Northeastern U.S.
By feinting that all of this somehow has something to do with Ukraine, these companies are now set to double their Profits.
You saw spot prices as high as $30 per mmbtu in New England this summer. You have the potential for much higher this winter.
But you’ve STOPPED all that EVIL fracking… right? Now … nobody will be able to set their well water on fire! Cause I saw that story on 60Minutes … and they never lie. Right?
The Maryland Public Service Commission has rules in place that allow Maryland customers to shop around for the lowest rates possible. For instance, in my area of the state, DelMarVa Power Delivery, (an Excelon Company) delivers my electricity. However, I can then shop around for an electricity supplier that has the lowest rate and sign a contract with them to supply my electricity.
For the last two years, I had a contract with a company with a set price of .0774 cents/KWH. I just received a letter from them alerting me that my contract will end in November and I have the option of renewing my contract for two more years at a new price offering, 13.84 cents/KWH, almost double my previous rate.
Needless to say, I called them up and told them to let my contract expire and I will go somewhere else.
Community electric here in Mass has our rate at .10 cents per kWh and without that special deal, it’s .17 cents per kWh plus the increases on Nov 1.
I imagine our community electric rate to be cancelled soon. Is supposed to be locked in until Jan 2024
The utilities don’t want to be in the energy supply business. They make their money delivering to your house on the local lines and that is a separate line item in your bill. Your prices went up because the commodities are significantly higher (more than double). No matter who you go to you are going to see similar rates.
The US is not sending nearly enough LNG to help the EU out of their energy crisis that will hit this winter. And frankly, even if the EU can make it through this winter, what happens in the spring? There is no source that can make up for the Russian sanctions.
You cannot supply enough gas by ship. Companies are simply chasing “higher sales prices.” Europe is dependent on pipelines: it’s the only way.
And so they are also dependent – “suck it up, buttercup” – on Russia. Which is why some of the stupidest among them pipe-dream of conquering the place so they can just steal what they need. Ain’t gonna happen. Ever.
True, but it’s enough to sky rocket American’s prices and severly impact our economy.
Everything is going nicely according to the WEFer’s plans.
Just change the definition of electricity rates. Worked so far.
There are probably a few conservatives in Taxachussets that i feel bad for but to all others I say “dont whine, shut up and pay up.”
Mass conservative here. NaSa you are going to be affected too. Watch how fast the feds and Mass democrats start printing money to hand out to their base. And look in the mirror to see who is going to pay for it.
Yes there are MANY conservatives in Ma that are held here by family or job ties. The male line in my family is not noted for longevity. There for I spend as much time as I can with the wee grands. For the record, I hate Ma.
If a democrat in leadership told people to jump off a tall bridge to save the planet a large majority of liberals in this country would do just that. As long as a D says it a lot of liberals will do it.
Let’s encourage a leading Dem to do so 🙂
If you are on a nuclear power grid with gas heat, get your electric space heaters.
I live about 15 miles from an enormous hydroelectric operation. Water keeps flowing downstream. But they will jack up our electricity rates, anyway. So it is a racket.
I live in the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts, and know all about the insane policies of the Commonwealth. While O’Biden’s Green New Deal is largely to blame, but I can’t understand how National Grid can jack up our bills 64% when there are acres and acres of solar panel fields in every town! Is it possible that these solar projects don’t actually produce as much electricity as they claim?
Solar and wind simply cannot provide. See for yourself, solar is a whopping 3% of generation for New England:
https://www.iso-ne.com/about/key-stats/resource-mix/
Solar runs at about 20% capacity factor and it is a big money loser. Whatever your installed capacity is isn’t really what you produce. Massachusetts is part of the RGGI program which is a criminal cap and trade program that has done nothing to reduce emissions. You can see the line item in your bill. It may show up as Renewable Portfolio Standard. The solar is intermittent and provides little benefit in the summer and almost no benefit in the winter.
Well, I live in MA but also have a place in FL. Just about time to head down there, methinks.
I keep thinking that the people pushing net zero can’t be this stupid and it must be an evil plot. Then I hear liberal friends and neighbors spout the nonsense they are fed and realize that no, most really are this stupid. A few very evil people at the top for sure though…
In the end, this is what’s going to bring these Imposters down: “Old Man Winter.” You can’t keep your illegitimate grip on power when millions of people are now being forced to pay twice as much for everything as they did under “You Know Who,” and when they are both hungry and cold.
Election Fraud has devastating consequences, and did I mention that it’s a Felony? These sycophants are saying to each other that “no high crime occurred,” and maybe they think that “The Big Lie” will work once again. Maybe they think they can arrest the man on some charge and hide him away in prison until he can be “Epsteined.”
But, mark my words: When things finally go wrong, they can go terribly wrong, terribly fast. And yet, not in the ways that you might (violently …) think.
The American people are not afraid of your threats of Violence. But, you should be afraid of their Peace. Oh yes, oh yes …
The Biden regime is undoubtably out to destroy We The People. Who will stop them, if not We The People?
My daughter in NH called last month saying how her bill had doubled. Sure enough, she’s now paying almost twice as much as my son and I. My son is in GA, I’m in between. Mine has increased by 20% since the Trump era.
Can anyone answer whether or not all of those hideous solar farms that are popping up in our lovely farmland areas will actually provide relief to the residents in each area that they’re located ?
We just got horribly betrayed by our zoning township in Dover township York County, Pa.
They’re allowing thousands of acres of gorgeous farmland to be solar farms. All weaving throughout neighborhoods and rural development. ☹️
“The hike is expected to last through May.”
DUH. Isn’t that when winter weather ends? IDIOTS.
Delusional Joe warned us of a very dark winter ahead. I think he meant every year he remained in his stolen Presidency.
OAN had some piece on today about how the gubt couldn’t do anything about the prices of gas and food. I wanted to throw something at them.
That could not have happened to a more deserving bunch of people, as it is the Masshole voters who have sent to Washington those who have worked to destroy US energy independence.
Not all of us, certainly not this “Masshole”.
I’ve never once voted for a Dem. I’m 64 and have voted in every single election since I was 18. I live in Ma and hate it, but kids and grandkids XOX
Hey, all you loyal dumbocraps, ya still love your joe Stalin, I mean Biden????
Do I hear crickets? No, really let’s hear from all the democrap genius’s.
I can heat with firewood here in FL! Our bill has already doubled. Maybe a few frozen Yankees will get the message. Ole Brandon may even get a stiffie at the ice cream shop.
President TRUMP’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act actually did what it said it would do. It created real tax cuts for Americans and American businesses that severely reduced energy costs and created jobs, unlike the b.s. Inflation Reduction Act which increases costs and inflation for Americans.
We got a month and a half of no energy bills, in the worst of the winter months, because that savings was passed back to us in the form of credits on our bills.
But don’t believe me, here’s the report:
Utility Energy Savings State By State – Tax Cuts And Jobs Act
By TaxConnections Admin
10 Jan 2019
https://www.taxconnections.com/taxblog/utility-energy-savings-state-by-state-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act
RUB THIS IN THEIR FACE!
.. hey! Doesn’t he lokk happy? He’s the president of the United States don’t you know! The dream of a lifetime finally achieved!
What they really need is to block Natural Gas so they can force electricity prices upward.
I had coffee with a Geologist that has 300 wells. His gas prices are $6 and by the time I get my meter reading they double.
The -20 freeze a couple years ago, the cost of gas for the month was under 30 dollars. The other charges were around 30.
Germany banned fracking 3 years ago.
Tight gas formations.
We are 10 years away from getting the gathering grid up to date.
Much of the billions into the grid are via taxes. The power lines. Cost of lunch at the Petroleum Club is up a couple of dollars.
According to an article, (that reads like a horror show) in the Buffalo News entitled:
Brace yourself: Heating costs are going to soar this winter
“Turning the thermostat down by 10-15 degrees for 8 straight hours, such as overnight, can reduce heating bills by 5 to 15 percent annually.”
The Buffalo News is actually reccomending that natural gas users who set their thermostat to 68 degrees, lower it to between 53 to to 58 degrees overnight.
It is absolutely unbelievable the they would reccomend this.
Incidentally, the blow back against the areas natural gas supplier, National Fuel, was so severe that the comnent section attached to the article was closed within a matter of hours.
Where is the “Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant” – WHEN YOU NEED IT?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Yankee_Nuclear_Power_Plant
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STOP VOTING DEMOCRAT!!!!!!
There’s an old joke that, if we put the government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there would be a shortage of sand.
Well, the government is in charge of energy…….
And transportation.
And health care.
And finance.
The governor’s of the GDC states must have a bet amongst themselves and/or might be financially incentivized by the genocidal maniac duo of S&S, Soros & Schwab (SS -apropos, eh?), to see who can permanently kill off, I mean reduce their human populations by the greatest number.
“California bans sale of natural gas heaters by 2030”
https://fox5sandiego.com/news/local-news/california-bans-sale-of-natural-gas-heaters-by-2030/
Gee some of those snobbish elites may have to dip into an offshore account or two.
This is seriously f-ed up.
Now there’s inflation on clicking on Thumb-Ups! I click once and the number go up by anywhere from 2 to 5!
I live in MA and there are a TON of commie-crats suffering crippling cognitive dissonance. As the Rats turn up the pain meter, the truth hurts more than ever. Many of the Rat sociopaths will never see the light, even if you set them on fire, but many other will. This is the greatest over reach of any government in History, and it is will have epic consequences.
It will be blamed on Trump.
NOTICE: Rate increases will not be applied to accounts with Martha’s Vineyard addresses.
I hope they are enjoying peaceful and calm tweets from Grandpa Joe.
BTW … I just filled up my Land Rover at my independent discount gas station. I checked Gas Buddy and saw their price was $5.09/gal. Best in my area. So I get to the station … and the price is $5.49!!! A $0.40 increase overnight!!! FUJoeBidinh!!! And their “service fee” has gone up from $0.35 to $0.45 … so much for our gasoline prices going down. Anyone who votes for ANY Democrat is voting to DESTROY America. It’s that simple
That’s 48 cents per kWh.
I pay .12 for a business rate.
I am expecting an increase but not to .42 cents.
That rate is unsustainable and leads straight to total economic collapse?
I don’t mean to be a Downer but seriously…THIS IS BAD!
HUNGRY AND SHIVERING IN A DARK CAVE—That is their plan, and it’s working!
Expect another raise in January.
Obama: “Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket, regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gases.”
In Mass. it’s finally come to that, no doubt to be followed in the rest of the New England states and the Atlantic seaboard.
This black grifter is living the good life in the state that he is destroying. His pedophile puppet in charge is going to do this to the rest of us.
Obama and his crowd of Communists is the worst thing that ever happened to this country. But hey, we just had to have the black guy, to assuage our own “collective guilt,” so we were told.
The only advice we get from Biden Buy a EV which are not Envirometaly Friendly as liberal pinheads might think