New England Grid > Massachusetts

Resources Market Infrastructure Policy

Resources: A measure of total energy production and consumption per capita

Market: The cost of consumption, measured in electricity prices and gasoline taxes

Infrastructure: Capacity to generate and refine energy sources; miles of pipelines

37th Resources
44th Market
44th Infrastructure

Massachusetts does not produce any natural gas, but the state consumes half of the natural gas used in the New England Grid region. Nearly 50% of Massachusetts households use natural gas as their primary energy source for home heating.

All three of the New England Grid's liquid natural gas import terminals are located in Massachusetts, although only one—the Everett Distrigas terminal—is actively used due to the surge in natural gas from US domestic sources, which flows into the region via pipeline.

state-massachusetts

Production trillion btu

0
Oil
0
Gas
0
Coal
0
Wind
1.02
Solar
3
Hydro
0
Biofuel
61
Nuclear

net energy Production trillion btu

-1,074
+65 Produced
1,139 Consumed

Consumption trillion btu

533
Oil
431
Gas
24
Coal
90
Renewable
61
Nuclear

Gasoline Tax total state + federal, 2014

MA
$0.45
USA
$0.46

Key Policies

  • Requires companies selling retail electricity to incrementally obtain 1% more from specified renewable sources each year.

  • Renewable generation must account for 15% of total electricity sold by 2020.

  • Requires the statewide use of reformulated motor gasoline blended with ethanol to limit ozone formation.

Electricity net production, trillion btu

-244
11.65¢
MA
8.81¢
USA