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Hearing Examiner Seeks Comments On Gas Special Contracts
A Massachusetts Hearing Officer filed request for further comments “to assist the Department in issuing its Final Order”
{***} “The Department invites additional written comments in light of the developments discussed above. Specifically, the Department requests comment regarding the following issues:
Whether and how the Department’s decision in Order 20-80-B affects the analysis previously offered by commenters in response to the Department’s questions in this docket.
- D.P.U. 18-152 at 5 (posing questions regarding the evidentiary burden to demonstrate the availability of an alternative to service under tariffed rates); and
- D.P.U. 18-152 at 6 (posing questions regarding filing requirements for petitions seeking approval of gas special contracts).
Commenters’ positions regarding the Attorney General’s arguments in D.P.U. 20-80 that gas special contracts should demonstrate: (1) net benefits to customers; and (2) that the customer’s use of natural gas is no more harmful in terms of GHG and air pollutant emissions than the customer’s alternative energy resource(s) (D.P.U. 20-80, Attorney General Comments at 41-43, May 6, 2022). o Commenters’ positions regarding the Attorney General’s February 2020 comments in D.P.U. 18-152 regarding whether service curtailment provisions provide an adequate basis for granting a departure from service under tariffs to service under a gas special contract.
Written comments may be filed no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, January 31, 2025. Reply comments may be filed no later than 5:00 p.m. on Friday, February 14, 2025.
HO’s Request For Comments (01/16/2025)
18-152 (Opened 12/20/2018)
(Investigation by the Department of Public Utilities on its own motion to review and revise the standard of review and the filing requirements for gas special contracts filed pursuant to G.L. c. 164, § 94.)
