Due to the abundant supply of relatively low cost natural gas in the United States, Connecticut has adopted an energy strategy designed, in part, to increase the state's residential, commercial and industrial use of natural gas. This strategy is reflected in a detailed document released on February 19, 2013 by the state's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) entitled the 2013 Connecticut Comprehensive Energy Strategy (CES).
That document is forward thinking, but to be comprehensive, it must address some particularly challenging and thorny issues that will either undermine the very reason for the natural gas initiative or reduce electric reliability in New England, or both.
