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State's Third-Largest City Seeks Approval To Launch Opt-out Municipal Aggregation
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Massachusetts's third-largest city has taken its latest step to implement an opt-out municipal aggregation for electricity
The City of Springfield, MA, in the WMECO (Eversource) service area, has formally filed an opt-out municipal aggregation plan with the Massachusetts DPU
The City's filing with the DPU references "more than 155,000 consumers", but based on population data, it is believed this number refers to the City's population and not the number of eligible electricity accounts
Consistent with DPU precedent, all customer classes, including all sizes of non-residential customers, would be enrolled into the program at the same price on an opt-out basis, to the extent the customers are not taking service from a competitive retail supplier or otherwise deemed not eligible under DPU precedent.
The term eligible customer excludes (1) Basic Service
customers who have asked their utility to not enroll them in competitive supply; (2) Basic Service
customers enrolled in a green power product that prohibits switching to a competitive supplier; and (3) customers
receiving competitive supply service.
The plan would authorize the City to impose an operational
adder of up to $0.001/kWh for the program's administrative costs
Springfield's plan indicates that its standard product, onto which customers would be defaulted absent an affirmative selection, may incorporate RECs beyond the required
minimum Massachusetts RPS obligation
Docket 24-88
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June 24, 2024
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Reporting by Paul Ring • ring@energychoicematters.com
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