Reminder: Public Hearing: AMI Data Access and Related Proposals
The Department is conducting a virtual public hearing on May 14, 2026 at 2:00-3:00 p.m. to receive comments on an advanced metering infrastructure data access protocol…
News Stories: Massachusetts
May 11, 2026
Utility Files New Basic Service Electric Rates
On May 8, 2026 NSTAR Electric Company d/b/a Eversource Energy (“Eversource”) submitted the results of its most recent solicitation for Basic Service supply for the…
May 5, 2026
Is Massachusetts Set to Defer Major Retail Market Reforms?
The House has introduced Study Order H5324 would allow the joint Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy Committee to sit in legislative recess to investigate the…
National Grid’s POR Rates Approved
On April 30, 2025 the Massachusetts DPU issued a final order approving National Grid’s POR discount rates. National Grid filed its annual Purchase of Receivables (POR)…
April 27, 2026
Parties File Comments Urging the PUC to Make Interval Data Available to Suppliers
On April 23, 2026 parties filed responses to ALJ questions and initial comments in Massachusetts investigation by the department of public utilities on its own motion…
April 24, 2026
Utilities Argue Competitive Energy Providers Should Pay AMI Implementation and Related Load Settlement Costs
As reported previously the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) when it initiated the Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) investigation directed the…
April 15, 2026
Attorney General Files Preliminary POR Comments
The Massachusetts’s Attorney General Office (AGO) filed preliminary comments requesting that the “Department fully investigate the Company’s POR filing in an…
April 9, 2026
DOER Files Petition Requesting DPU Open an Investigation to Place All Non-Shopping Customers on TOU Rates
In a cover letter the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) submits the attached Petition requesting the Department of Public Utilities (Department) find…
April 7, 2026
Continuing to Watch Massive Energy Bill that Would Directly Impact Suppliers
H5151 was given first reading in the Senate and referred to Ways and Means Committee (3/2/26). On February 27, 2026 the bill was published as amended. See companion bill…
April 1, 2026
Attorney General Issues Another Scathing Competitive Electric Supply Report
On March 31, 2026 via a press release, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell released her office’s scathing competitive electric supply report -which…
