These charts show the resources meeting consumer demand for grid electricity in real-time.
Resources in the chart include batteries, coal, hydro, natural gas, net imports from neighboring regions, nuclear, oil, renewables, and other (which includes demand response). Resources in the renewable category include landfill gas, methane, refuse, solar, steam, wind, and wood. Net import values represent the electricity being imported, less that being exported, across the region’s tie lines.
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 across the six New England states.
A resource type may appear in the legend but not in the charts if it is producing a very low amount of electricity. If a resource type is not producing any electricity, it will not appear at all.
The Marginal Fuel is the fuel currently being used by the resource that will be dispatched to generate the next additional megawatt of energy on the New England power system.
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