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Massachusetts House Passes Bill To Strip Senate's Prohibition On Individual Residential Electric Choice
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The Massachusetts House of Representatives passed to be engrossed an amended version of S.2838 which strips from the Senate-passed bill the Senate's ban on individual residential electric choice
Passage to engrossment represents the final action on the bill by the House at this stage. The bill differs from the Senate-passed version, and requires either concurrence by the Senate to the House version, or establishment of a conference committee, for the bill to proceed to a vote on enactment
The Senate-passed S.2838, a wide-ranging energy bill, had included language providing that, "On or after January 1, 2026, no supplier, energy marketer or energy broker shall execute a new contract or renew an existing contract for generation services with any individual residential retail customer". This provision did not apply to municipal aggregation
This provision was also separately passed by the Senate on a stand-alone basis under S.2738 (though it would be effective 2025 rather than 2026). The stand-alone S.2738 remains sitting in a House committee
S.2838, as passed to be engrossed by the House, strikes the above-cited language prohibiting individual residential electric choice
The House further adopted various retail market enhancements, although the bill as passed to be engrossed removes an earlier House provision which would have authorized supplier consolidated billing
Rather, House-adopted amendments to S.2838 include the following retail market enhancements:
• Accelerated switching (3 business days) for residential or small commercial customers, upon full AMI deployment
• Contract portability for a customer moving within an EDC service area, allowing the customer to be served by their existing retail supplier at the new location, with no interim period on default service
• Day 1 switching, allowing customers to take retail supplier service immediately upon service initiation, without being placed on default service for an interim period
The House's revisions to S.2838 were accomplished via H.4876 as an amendment to S.2838. H.4876 itself was later amended from a committee version (with one of such amendments being the removal of language authorizing supplier consolidated billing).
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Bill Includes Various Retail Market Enhancements, But Not Supplier Consolidated Billing
July 17, 2024
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Reporting by Paul Ring • ring@energychoicematters.com
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