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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 Inspector General’s bill H15 and the Governor’s bill H4144.
As reported previously, H15 seeks to strengthen surety requirements and penalties and to close enforcement gaps for the state’s renewable electricity supplier programs, including the RPS, APS, and CES portfolio standards. H4144 is an extremely broad bill that would “reform the residential competitive retail supply market” in addition to ending the APS and having a wide range of other effects.
It is worth noting that the study order was not accompanied by the omnibus H5175, a “response” to H4144 that includes a number of similar reforms as well as increased focus on affordability. That bill remains in the Senate Ways and Means Committee, having been passed to be engrossed by the House in February.
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