The power company is blaming this on the high demand for natural gas, which doesn’t seem right.
Massachusetts’ residents keep blocking pipelines to bring Natural Gas into the area.
For years energy experts have warned that New England would pay a price for wanting to use more and more natural gas for heating buildings and to replace dirty coal-fired power plants for producing electricity, while not making any investments in expanding gas pipelines.
http://www.necn.com/news/business/Massachusetts-Electric-Rates-Soar-277009371.html