State’s Fifth Largest City Receives OK To Launch Opt-out Municipal Aggregation
May 01,2017
The Massachusetts DPU has approved the electric opt-out municipal aggregation plan of the City of Cambridge, MA, without modification except to conform to certain recently adopted precedent (see story here)
Cambridge is the fifth populous city in Massachusetts (with a population of about 105,000).
Eligible consumers under Cambridge's aggregation plan include residential, commercial, industrial, municipal, and/or other consumers
The City intends to offer a standard product that, at program launch, provides savings as compared to NSTAR Electric’s basic service rates. The standard product will include renewable energy certificates in an amount that exceeds the amount required under the Renewable Portfolio Standard. In addition, the City intends to offer an optional product that includes a higher number of local and regional RECs than the standard product
Customers will pay a $0.00075 per kWh administrative adder that will be used to compensate the City’s consultants for the development and implementation of the program, as well as ongoing services
Additionally, the City may include an operational adder of up to $0.0002 per kWh that will be used to support the operational costs of the program and to support renewable energy projects that create benefits for program participants.