The DPU decision authorizes National Grid to move to a tiered discount approach by June 2025, replacing the 32 percent flat rate with a five-tier system providing discounts ranging from 32 percent to 71 percent depending on income level.
Electricity
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Doctors’ diagnosis on retail electricity misses the mark
The op-ed raises valid concerns about some suppliers’ unethical practices and rightly calls for consumer protection. RESA and its members agree. Where we differ is labeling an entire industry as bad actors. Taking away all licenses, rather than taking away the licenses of the bad actors, is overkill. More importantly, it dismisses the value of a competitive market.
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Don’t run my retail electricity company out of business
Massachusetts has a competitive energy market with many private market participants driving the state forward offering programs that compete with the utilities.
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Protect our patients, ban retail electricity suppliers
The bottom line is that third-party energy suppliers overprice a basic necessity for the poorest and sickest in our state while sowing confusion and mistrust about our urgent need for a clean, decarbonized economy.
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Big electricity shift coming: Are we ready?
Demand for power from the grid is expected to grow by more than 17 percent over the next 10 years, as electrification of vehicles and home heating drives up consumption, more than offsetting growth in energy efficiency and solar installations.
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Transmission study reaches some hopeful conclusions
ISO New England’s 2050 Transmission Study, finalized last month, is the first the regional grid operator has undertaken examining the region’s transmission system in detail beyond the traditional 10-year planning horizon.
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Magical eclipse created temporary solar power void
Officials at ISO New England estimate roughly 4,000 megawatts of electricity, or about a third of total electricity demand at the time, was being generated by solar just prior to the eclipse.
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Campbell takes another swipe at electricity retailers
In the eighth year, running from July 2022 through June 2023, the retailers saved their customers a total of $30.4 million, but Campbell’s report said she expected the savings to be much higher.
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Preserve choice, retain competitive electricity suppliers
Despite the persistent claims from some regulators and consumer advocates that consumers are filing an excessive number of complaints against competitive retail suppliers, the data released by these same groups do not add up.
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New England’s last coal-fired power plant to close
Granite Shore Power said it reached an agreement with the US Environmental Protection Agency to close Merrimack Station in Bow, New Hampshire, as well as Schiller Station in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and transform them into what the company called “renewable energy parks.”