This graph charts the fuels New England's power plants are using to generate electricity throughout the course of a day, by megawatt. Electricity imported from neighboring areas is not included.
Fuels in the chart include: coal, hydro, natural gas, nuclear, oil, and renewables. Fuels in the renewable category include: landfill gas, refuse, solar, wind, and wood.
Hydro is not included in the renewable category primarily because the various sources that make up hydroelectric generation (i.e., conventional hydroelectric, run-of-river, pumped storage) are not universally defined as renewable in the six New England states.
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Produced daily, the Morning Report provides the ISO's best estimate of expected capacity available to meet peak-hour electricity demand and reserve requirements — key parameters used to operate the power system reliably.
These charts indicate the fuels being used by New England's power plants to generate electricity.
The Fuels chart includes: natural gas, nuclear, coal, oil, hydro, and renewables. Electricity imported from neighboring areas is not included. “Other” represents resources using a fuel type that does not fall into any of these categories. Other may include new technologies or new fuel types that come onto the system but are not yet of sufficient quantity to have their own category. Other will almost always reflect a percentage of less than one percent when it appears in the chart because of the small number and size of the resources in the category.
The Renewables category, which is also shown as its own chart, includes: landfill gas, methane, refuse, solar, steam, wind, and wood. Hydro is not included in this category primarily because the various sources that make up hydroelectric generation (i.e., conventional hydroelectric, run-of-river, pumped storage) are not universally defined as renewable in the six New England states.
A fuel may appear in the legend but not in the charts if it is producing a very low amount of electricity. If a fuel is not producing any electricity, it will not appear at all.
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This forecast is ISO New England's hourly systemwide demand forecast for today and the next two days. This is the expected amount of electricity to be used in the New England Balancing Authority Area: Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and most of Maine. The forecast is updated twice daily at 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. eastern prevailing time.
