How 1.5M new electric vehicles will affect the power grid through 2033 [Video]

More than 1.5 million new electric vehicles. A near doubling of solar production. A fourteen-fold increase in electricity demand for heating.

Those numbers reflect the next decade in Massachusetts, according to ISO New England.

In an energy forecast published last week, the region’s power grid operator predicted a steady increase in electricity consumption in New England from now through 2033, to the tune of 17%, driven primarily by building and transportation electrification.

According to the report, Massachusetts will continue to lead the region in energy use (gigawatt-hours) in both heating and transportation.

“There (are) unprecedented changes going on to the power system in New England,” Victoria Rojo, lead data scientist on ISO New England’s load forecasting team, said in a videopublished with the report. “This presents a lot of challenges, but it also is extremely rewarding in that we get to, and have to, be pioneers of the mechanisms by which to deal with some of these issues going …