Saturday March 8, 2025, the Providence Journal published a commentary by Seth Handy: Western RI deserves better strategy to stay warm
National Grid has Exited Rhode Island with $5.3 Billion
National Grid has exited Rhode Island with $5.3 billion. The agency review process refused to allow advocacy for the public interest in rate reduction, allowing the utilities to continue capitalizing on their economic interests in infrastructure investment and their own utility-scale energy supply solutions. This editorial addresses the need to better regulate our monopoly utility to ensure that its interests do not conflict with our energy and climate policy to provide for lower cost, more secure and reliable and cleaner energy solutions moving forward.