November 20, 2013 EditionEdition

A recent Oct. 28 Hartford Business Journal article (“NU's $338M CT transmission line shelved”) explained that the regional electric grid operator has hit the pause button on plans to proceed with the $338 million Central Connecticut Reliability Project, which was intended to help improve grid performance and reliability. Unfortunately the article chooses to focus only on the narrow set of financial benefits of building transmission projects in the state and thus overlooks the much more significant benefits — economic and environmental — that can be reaped if the region chooses different, more flexible and innovative means to support grid reliability in the 21st century.