====== Media Articles ======

{{ :x178:portland_press_herald_article_8-22-2024.pdf |2024, August 22: Portland Press Herald; "Mainers could pay $32 million for grid upgrade in New Hampshire"}}

[[https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/ratepayers-for-utility-justice|2024, August 20: Common Dreams; Ratepayers for utility justice.]]

{{ :x178:20240816_cane_letter_to_eversource_re_x_178_with_signatures_final.pdf |2024, August 19: Consumer Advocates of New England letter to Eversource re.X-178}}

{{ :x178:20240816_cane_press_release_re_x-178_eversource_project_final.pdf |2024, August 16: Consumer Advocates of New England press release re. X-178}}

[[https://indepthnh.org/2024/08/19/transmission-projects-costing-billions-flow-directly-to-ratepayers-bills/|2024, August 19: InDepthNH, Suit against Eversource, ISO-NE and FERC]]

{{ :x178:2024-8-12_caledonian_record_x-178.pdf |2024, August 12: Caledonian-Record article on X-178; NESCOE letter and SEC.}}

[[https://acadiacenter.org/crosscurrents-issue-2/| 2024, June: Acadia Center article on X-178 "proposed" asset condition rebuild]]

[[https://www.utilitydive.com/news/eversource-national-grid-iso-new-england-ferc-asset-condition-transmission-maine/706393/|2024, February 2; Utility Dive, "Eversource, others may be capitalizing on lax reviews for some transmission projects: Maine officials"]]

{{ :ac:me_advocate_protest_w-attachments.pdf |2024, January 31: Maine Advocate complaint to FERC re. asset condition projects}}

{{ ::20240108-5192_harvard_eli_ad21-15_comment_-_jan_8_2024.pdf |2024, January 8: Ari Peskoe letter to FERC re.  Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission}}

{{::20240108-5047_donahue_comment_filing_docket_ad21-15-000_for_28_feb_2024_joint_federal_state_task_force_meeting.pdf |2024, January 8: Thomas Donahue letter to FERC re.  Joint Federal-State Task Force on Electric Transmission}}

[[https://newhampshirebulletin.com/2023/10/26/customers-dont-exist-to-support-transmission-projects-but-in-new-england-they-do/| 2023, October 26: New Hampshire Bulletin]]

[[https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ferc-local-transmission-pjm-aep-duke-ohio-occ-consumers-counsel-complaint/695147/| 2023, September 29: Utility Dive; "Ohio utilities have added nearly $6.5 billion in PJM-approved “supplemental projects” since 2017 without oversight of their need, prudence and cost-effectiveness, the Ohio ratepayer advocate said."]]

[[https://www.oca.nh.gov/news-and-media/ratepayer-advocates-nh-ma-me-and-ri-speak-out| 2023, September 14: Office of the NH Consumer Advocate news release]]

[[https://www.nhbr.com/opinion-northern-pass-lite-phase-i/| 2023, September 22: New Hampshire Business Review]]

[[https://www.oca.nh.gov/news-and-media/500000000-question-asset-condition-transmission-projects|2023, August: Office of the NH Consumer Advocate news release]]

[[https://indepthnh.org/2023/07/14/op-ed-northern-pass-lite-phase-i/|2023, July 14: InDepthNH, same article printed in NHBR]]

[[https://www.utilitydive.com/news/FERC-independent-transmission-monitor-itm-Southern-Company/633592/| 2022, October 7: Utility Dive "About 63% of transmission investment in California over the last three years was on “repair and replacement” projects that are self-approved by the state’s three major investor-owned utilities."]]

{{ :ac:wired_group_asset_condition_problem_2.pdf |2020, September: Wired Group 2}}

{{ :ac:asset_condition_problem_wired_group.pdf |2020, August: Wired Group}}

[[https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2017/12/to_avoid_skyrocketing_electric.html| 2017, December 31: Cleveland Opinion. To Avoid Skyrocketing Electric Costs FERC scrutiny of 'supplemental' projects is needed]]