Cold weather updates: Week of January 23, 2026 - ISO Newswire

by Dan McKay

17 hours ago

The battle is on. To hell with carbon dioxide. To hell with the renewables. To hell with RGGI. The grid operators fight back

https://isonewswire.com/2026/01/23/iso-ne-issues-cold-weather-watch-ahead-of-winter-storm/

  • Willem Post

    The ISO-NE debased itself by shamefully kowtowing for decades to the inane whims of woke, entrenched, self-serving bureaucrats in RI, Mass and Conn by favoring wind and solar over abundant, low-cost, ultra-clean, domestic gas and nuclear, that produce plentiful, steady, low-cost electricity, for many decades, that supports the grid, regardless of cold and cloudy/snowy weather, whereas environmentally damaging, expensive, foreign-supplied offshore wind and solar are hopelessly DEPENDENT on the weather.

    There is no wind and solar panels are covered with a foot of snow for days!!

    15 hours ago

  • Willem Post

    Spineless, woke ISO-NE created the disaster conditions decades ago, and now is begging the FERC for permission to deal with the disaster!!

    Mass is importing very expensive RUSSIAN LNG, which a French LNG carrier equipped with an ice beaker hull to get the LNG from Russian Arctic  ports to Boston, where the LNG is regasified and distributed in pipelines.

    15 hours ago

  • Dan McKay

    You are spot on, Willem, ISO-NE is shirking their responsibility as the operator in charge of the grid and development of generation resources that are abundant, reliable and avoids the very issues being experienced during this moderate cold snap. 
    Every year, prior to legislative sessions, their representatives will appear either in person or via zoom to explain to lawmakers how they prepare the grid for hourly, daily, weekly and triannually to achieve their mission of grid stability and reasonable prices to consumers. Every year they duck the problems associated with state government derived policies that favor wind, solar and battery storage. They leave the uneducated legislators believing that ISO-NE will, because of their super engineering abilities, accommodate all the wind, solar and battery storage that the lawmakers can throw at them. 
    ISO-NE needs to grow up and tell these State Leaders that their renewable policies are destroying the grid, but they are cowards.
    Instead, ISO-NE kowtows to knuckleheads like Philip Bartlett, who would have them build out transmission along the entire north-south length of Maine for useless wind power, using a cabal of New England blue states, aka NESCOE, to backdoor this project out of sight of ratepayers who are being asked to pay billions for it.

    15 hours ago