Gov Signs Long-Term Contracting Bill (50% of Market), EDCs May Use Products For Default Service
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed H. 4568 which requires the EDCs to solicit long-term contracts for 9,450,000 megawatts-hours of, "cle...
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Muni Agg Official: Shopping Individually For Supplier Is Like "Stock Market"
Customers should think of shopping individually for a competitive supplier like the "stock market", an official with the Cape Light Compact ...
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State’s Second Largest City Seeking Consultant To Develop New Municipal Aggregation Program
The city manager of Worcester, MA, the state's second-largest city, is seeking approval to retain a consultant to develop an opt-out municipal electri...
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Restitution Program Under Retail Supplier’s Massachusetts Settlement Enters Second Phase
The Massachusetts Attorney General announced that restitution to customers under a previously reported 2014 settlement with Just Energy, related to se...
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Globe: Gov. Baker’s Biggest Energy Focus Is Getting Hydro Long-Term Contract Legislation Passed
The Boston Globe reported on Governor Charlie Baker's energy priorities from last week's state of the commonwealth address, describing Baker's biggest...
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Claim: Energy Sales Agents Using Decommissioning of Power Plant To Scare Residents Into Contract
Officials in Salem and Swampscott, Massachusetts, which are implementing opt-out municipal aggregation programs, are warning residents of door-to-door...
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Mass. DPU Posts Examples of Supplier Disclosure Statements Under Consideration
The Massachusetts DPU has posted examples of strawman retail electric supplier disclosure statements which were discussed at a recent technical confer...
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Town Official "Embarrassed" To Have Launched Muni Aggregation Now That Agg Rates 30% Above Market
Town officials in Natick, MA are encouraging customers to leave the town's municipal aggregation after the town locked in a two-year fixed rate at...
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Interim Massachusetts DPU Electric Shopping Rate Board Goes Live
The Massachusetts DPU's interim electric shopping rate board has gone live on the DPU's website
The interim site limits listed products to 6 or 12 mo...
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Entergy to Close Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, Citing "Poor Market Conditions"
Entergy Corporation announced today that it will close its Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth, Mass., no later than June 1, 2019, because of po...
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Op-ed: If Muni Aggregation Can’t Get Approval Right, How Can It Competently Manage Electric Supply?
The Daily Hampshire (MA) Gazette recently published an editorial concerning the DPU's rejection of the Hampshire Council of Governments municipal aggr...
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Boston-Area Metro Planning Council Issues RFP For Municipal Aggregation Services
The Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC), a regional planning agency which counts 101 municipal members including the City of Boston, MA, has iss...
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Mass. OKs Pacts Between 3 Gas Utilities, Pipeline Company
The Lowell, MA Sun reports that the DPU recently approved contracts between three gas companies and Kinder Morgan
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MA Gov. On Need For Hydro Imports: Current Market "Not Very Competitive"
Rebuking claims from "competitive" generators that the current New England wholesale market is responding to the need for new supplies, Massachusetts ...
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Retail Supplier Wants Government To Do Its Job For It (Taxpayers Would Subsidize Compliance)
The Massachusetts DPU should, "[c]reate and maintain a DPU database of local solicitation requirements that competitive suppliers must utilize to...
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