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Clean electricity will deliver up to 80% of North America’s primary energy needs in the coming net-zero world.

It will be used to move electric vehicles, heat homes, and power industry. Without better grid integration and optimization across the Canadian-American northeast, our collective economic and environmental future is at risk.

To ensure an abundance of affordable, secure, clean power, it is vital that the states and provinces work together to better connect and modernize our electricity grid. 

TARGET Region: Northeast Power Coordinating Council reliability zone

Source: npcc.org

Key Areas of Cross-Border Collaboration

  • Environmental Justice and Community Mobilization

  • Interregional Transmission Planning

  • Clean Energy Procurement and Market Development

The Northeast Grid Planning Forum will provide state and provincial leadership with the policy tools they need to grow and green our shared power grid. This involves the launch of a durable, deliberative stakeholder process which will help formalize and deepen collaboration amongst the northeast American states and Canadian provinces.

This process will involve meaningful and inclusive engagement of civil society, labor, industry, Indigenous and community representatives of all stripes to mobilize support for the energy transition. 

The Northeast Grid Planning Forum’s approach to interregional collaboration is based on the October 2020 summary of regional leadership opinions, commissioned by The Transition Accelerator and authored by the Regulatory Assistance Project. The targeted geographic region comprises the footprint of the Northeast Power Coordinating Council reliability zone – Ontario, Québec, the Atlantic provinces, New York, and the New England states.

Target Region