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City Of Springfield Files Electric Opt-Out Municipal Aggregation
The City of Springfield, MA, in the WMECO (Eversource) service area, formally filed an electric opt-out municipal aggregation plan with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities or 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.
As required by DPU’s opt-out aggregations, 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 requirement.
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.
Petition + Supporting Attachments (06/21/2024)
Docket 24-88 (Opened 06/21/2024)
Petition of the City of Springfield for Approval by the Department of Public Utilities of its Municipal Aggregation Plan, pursuant to G.L. c. 164, § 134.
