The Massachusetts DPU ordered the electric distribution utilities to separate January and February into separate basic service pricing periods, such that January and February will no longer be in the same fixed retail rate price period, with a change made for both mass market and large customers

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August 16, 2023

Retail Supplier Announces $70 Million Community Solar Development

EnergyMark announced a new $70 million community solar development, encompassing seven projects, that the company said, "is expected to produce $2.5 million annually in bill credits for their NYS electric customers for the next 10 years."

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August 11, 2023

Former Retail Energy Exec Named CEO Of EVgo

EVgo Inc. ("EVgo" or the "Company") announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Badar Khan to succeed Cathy Zoi as Chief Executive Officer, effective on or about November 9, 2023.

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April 24, 2023

Retail Supplier Launches In ISO-NE, Also Undergoes Rebranding

SmartestEnergy US announced that it has launched in the ISO New England region, initially with service at Connecticut Light and Power, United Illuminating, and National Grid (Massachusetts), serving medium and large C&I customers on fully fixed products

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March 15, 2023

Utility's Residential, Commercial Default Service Rates To Fall 58% (About 19¢)

National Grid in Massachusetts has filed new basic service (default service) electric rates for the period beginning May 1, 2023.

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March 15, 2023

Utility Files New POR Discount Rates, Commercial Spikes To Over 2.5%; Residential To 2%

National Grid in Massachusetts has filed an update to the standard complete billing percentages (SCBPs), or purchase of receivables (POR) discount rates, proposed to be effective May 1, 2023

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February 9, 2023

NRG: Regulator's Proposed Default Service Changes Would Make "Chumps" Out Of Certain Customers

At Current Migration, Residential Default Service Customers Will Pay $329 Million More Than Retail Supply, At Single Utility, NRG Says

Wholesale Supplier Proposes Longer Term Fixed Procurements Of Default Service (Fixed Volume Financial Block)

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December 12, 2022

Regulator Denies Utility's Petition To Remove Mystic Costs From Default Service Bids

Utility Had Sought To Pass-Through Costs, With Estimates Used In Rate Setting (With Reconciliation Nonbypassable)

The Massachusetts DPU denied a petition from National Grid which had sought to exclude the responsibility for costs resulting from the ISO New England Mystic Cost of Service Agreement from electricity basic service (default service) bids, with bidders instead passing through to National Grid their…

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November 17, 2022

National Grid Seeks To Remove Mystic Costs From Default Service Bids; Would Be Included In Rates As Estimated Pass-Through, But Reconciliation Would Be Nonbypassable

Utility Says Action Would Lower SOS Rates In Time Of Rising Prices

National Grid has filed a petition at the Massachusetts DPU to exclude the responsibility for costs resulting from the ISO New England Mystic Cost of Service Agreement from electricity basic service (default service) bids, with bidders instead passing through to National Grid their actual costs…

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October 20, 2022

Hershey Selects Supplier Of Solar Power, From Facility In ERCOT

National Grid Renewables announced the start of construction at its Copperhead Solar & Storage Project (Copperhead), a 150 megawatt (MW) solar and 100 megawatt-hour (MWh) storage project in Falls County, Texas, within ERCOT.

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September 27, 2022

Regulator Intends To Open Review Of Default Service Procurements

AG Raises New, Additional Concern With Bids As 30¢ Rates Approved Regulator "Strongly Urges ... Caution" Against Shopping For Retail Supply

Responding to a request from the Massachusetts Attorney General, the Massachusetts DPU said that, "In regards to examining rules governing future procurement of basic service, the Department intends to open such an investigation after the resolution of the short-term procurement proposals pending…

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September 26, 2022

Utility Files Alternative Default Service Procurement Plan

National Grid in Massachusetts has filed with the DPU a proposed alternative basic service procurement plan for its large industrial customer group (General Service – Demand G-2 customers, and General Service – Time-of-Use G-3 customers), after it did not award any supply for the industrial customer…

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September 22, 2022

In Light Of 30¢ SOS Rates, Attorney General Presses Regulator To Consider Default Service "Reforms", Ways To Lessen Price Spike Impacts

The Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General has requested that the state's Department of Public Utilities consider "reforms" to the procurement of electricity supplies for basic service (default service), and to consider ways to lessen the impact of the winter basic service rates

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