What is National Grid doing to address Climate Change in the Northeast and other places?
National Grid Electric Generation The Natural Resource Defense Council rates National Grid as one of the cleanest utilities in the country and we have been given an ‘A’ by Innovest, a financial services company that rates the environmental performance of major corporations. National Grid has invested over $100 million dollars since the early 1990s to add natural gas burning capability and other emission control systems to our power plants. Burning natural gas reduces our power plant CO2 emission rate by 30% compared to fuel oil. And National Grid’s annual CO2 emissions from all our power plants combined in 2006 were some 37 lower than in 1990. National Grid plans to spend over $100 million on additional efficiency improvements and emission control systems at our Northport and Port Jefferson, Long Island plants over the next 4-5 years to lower CO2 and NOx emissions even further. National Grid Service Vehicles National Grid operates a low emitting utility vehicle fleet that includes appr
