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This document contains comments of the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company on the Uniform Standards for Consumer Disclosure in New England. MMWEC concludes that it cannot agree with RAP’s recommendation of a hybrid approach and urges the Commissions to face… View Summary +
This report makes policy recommendations to the six New England states on uniform consumer information disclosure for the retail sale of electricity. View Summary +
This document contains comments of the Massachusetts Division of Energy Resources on the New England Disclosure Report. View Summary +
Despite remaining scientific uncertainties, 2600 international climate scientists advising the United Nations IPCC reached consensus that “discernible human influence on global climate,” and stressed the “importance for timely decision-making.”… View Summary +
The focus of this paper is tagging as a means of information disclosure. This paper reviews the issues surrounding a tagging system and its advantages over two competing mechanisms of information disclosure: independent system operator-based tracking and claims-based tracking systems. View Summary +
This Issuesletter shares customer preferences for retail direct access to electricity suppliers in restructured competitive markets based on the collective findings from focus groups in California, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Washington. View Summary +
This 1997 paper sets forth the most important of the IPCC’s conclusions and discusses the areas of uncertainty that continue to exist. Particular attention is paid to the contribution and role of the electric utility industry in the climate change… View Summary +
This Issuesletter provides an overview of securitization and presents some issues that require attention when evaluating securitization proposals. It reviews legislation adopted in California, Pennsylvania and Montana. View Summary +
This is a report documenting focus group research on consumer information preferences for choosing a competitive electricity service provider in two West Coast states. Participants wanted standard disclosures to enable informed electricity supply decisions. View Summary +
This newsletter shares program development information on green pricing, a service that electric utilities can offer to their customers to support acquiring more renewable energy resources. This is Volume 5: Commercial Demand. View Summary +
This newsletter shares program development information on green pricing, a service that electric utilities can offer to their customers to support acquiring more renewable energy resources. This is Volume 7: Default Service. View Summary +
This green pricing resource guide is intended to assist those who are planning or considering a green pricing program, a voluntary customer option to pay a premium for environmentally-preferred sources of electricity. View Summary +
This IssuesLetter examines the transition from vertically integrated monopolies to competitive wholesale markets for generation. Divestiture and the formation of idependent system operators are explored. View Summary +
Retail customer choice sets customers free to choose their supplier of electricity from a range of competing, unregulated suppliers. Constructed and implemented right, choice could result in more and lower-cost energy options for all consumers. View Summary +
The purpose of this report is to explore the basis for a new relationship between consumers and their electric supplier and between retail suppliers and regulators. If the regulatory approach for public utilities has historically been dominated by the traditional… View Summary +