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November 13, 2020
NSTAR Electric Company d/b/a Eversource Energy filed with the Massachusetts DPU new basic service rates for its Western Massachusetts service territory (WMA), formerly WMECO, for the period beginning January 1, 2021
November 10, 2020
EDP Renewables and ENGIE announced that their 50:50 Ocean Winds (OW) joint venture, which combined their existing and planned offshore wind efforts, is entering the U.S. markets, through OW North America
November 4, 2020
Start-up retail supplier Actual Energy, Inc. applied for a Connecticut retail electric supplier license to serve commercial and industrial customers.
October 29, 2020
CPower Energy Management has been awarded a five-year renewal from the Massachusetts Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance (DCAMM) of its current contract to provide curtailment and demand response services to facilities statewide.
October 27, 2020
Revised rules governing the Massachusetts DPU's Energy Switch MA electricity shopping website will take effect on November 3, 2020, a hearing examiner notified stakeholders
October 26, 2020
The City of Boston has selected Constellation NewEnergy, Inc. to serve its opt-out municipal electricity aggregation, with a start date of February 2021
October 15, 2020
Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont, Maine Governor Janet Mills, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, and Vermont Governor Phil Scott are calling for reform of the regional electricity market design, transmission planning process, and the governance of the ISO-New…
September 28, 2020
Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Unitil has filed with the Massachusetts DPU electric basic service rates for the period beginning December 1, 2020.
September 22, 2020
Direct Energy has become an additional founding partners of Greentown Labs Houston, a clean tech startup incubator that will be located in midtown Houston.
September 22, 2020
The NRG Retail Companies recently submitted to the Massachusetts DPU a motion for clarification requesting that the DPU clarify that the in-person enrollment contract summary form obligations set forth in the Department’s May 22, 2020 Order on Tier One Initiatives -- which include a component of…
September 21, 2020
Enel X, the Enel Group's advanced energy services business line, announced it has been awarded two grants by the Accelerating Clean Transportation Now (ACTNow) program through the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC).
September 15, 2020
National Grid has filed with the Massachusetts DPU basic service electric rates for the period November 1, 2020 through April 30, 2021 for the residential and commercial customer groups, and the period November 1, 2020 through January 31, 2021 for the industrial customer group
September 2, 2020
Fitchburg Gas and Electric d/b/a Unitil has filed with the Massachusetts DPU revised Standard Complete Billing Percentages (purchase of receivables [POR] discount rates), to be effective December 1, 2020
August 20, 2020
The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced that a consent judgment among the AG and Starion Energy, and its principals Ruzhdi Dauti, and Dashmir Murtishi, was entered in Suffolk Superior Court on Tuesday to settle claims made by the AG against Starion
August 18, 2020
Nstar (Eversource) has filed with the Massachusetts DPU new electric basic service rates for large C&I customers in its Eastern Massachusetts service territory for the period beginning October 1, 2020.
August 18, 2020
The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) stated in an August 4 notice of non-compliance that DOER, "hereby finds that the Hampshire Council of Governments ('HCOG') has failed to comply with the requirements of the Renewable and Alternative Energy Portfolio Standards under 225 CMR…
August 11, 2020
NSTAR Electric Company d/b/a Eversource Energy filed new basic service rates for the Medium & Large Commercial and Industrial customer class in the WCMA Load Zone, the former Western Massachusetts Electric Company (WMECO) service area, for the three-month period beginning October 1, 2020
July 30, 2020
PowerOptions, which describes itself as New England's largest energy buying consortium, announced today that Janet Gail Besser has been elected as Chair of its Board of Directors.
July 29, 2020
The Massachusetts DPU recently issued a letter to retail energy suppliers regarding the resumption of door to door marketing
July 22, 2020
DPU Rules On Whether City Is Entitled To Utility Customer Lists Showing Competitive Supply Customers, For Intended Marketing Of Aggregation To Currently Shopping Customers
July 20, 2020
The Massachusetts electric and natural gas utilities have reported "incremental" supply costs paid by low-income customers on competitive supply versus basic service, as well as the impact on the Residential Assistance Adjustment Factors (RAAF)
July 20, 2020
Further Stakeholder Meeting Set
Two Massachusetts DPU hearing officers have issued a memo concerning various implementation issues regarding the DPU's May 22 order on retail energy marketing and related provisions (Docket 19-07)
July 16, 2020
FERC denied a complaint filed by Liberty Power Holdings LLC (Liberty) against Eversource Energy Company (Eversource) and ISO New England Inc. (ISO-NE) in which Liberty alleged that ISO-NE inappropriately refused to correct a billing error that arose from Eversource’s reporting to ISO-NE load…
July 7, 2020
PowerOptions, which describes itself as the largest energy-buying consortium in New England, has expanded its relationship with Solect Energy to offer large scale solar and storage to its members
July 7, 2020
The Massachusetts DPU has opened Phase II of its grid modernization proceeding with a "primary focus" of examining whether to deploy advanced metering to basic service (default service) customers with electric vehicles (EVs), in addition to a discrete number of other customers
