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Successfully Navigating Competitive Waters
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Successfully Navigating Competitive Waters

Fifteen years ago, PowerOptions launched the first competitive offerings for electricity and natural gas in the newly deregulated energy market in Massachusetts. Recently, we announced the award of our newest electricity program offering through 2019. This is our sixth open solicitation since we were founded and, as with each previous offering, it reflects the robustness […]

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Federal Regulators Side with Customers
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Federal Regulators Side with Customers

Customers and common sense won out last week in an important ruling by federal regulators on ensuring adequate electricity supply during cold snaps next winter. In July, we reported about ISO-NE’s solution to the winter operability challenge, which reduces the availability of natural gas as a result of increased demand for home heating. Specifically, the […]

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Our Demand Response for the Next Heat Wave
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Our Demand Response for the Next Heat Wave

The recent heat wave brought a fresh tide of glowing reviews for Demand Response, which pays consumers to curtail electricity use when demand on the grid is nearing its peak. But the positive press belies another still-untold story about demand response – one which raises critical questions policymakers ought to be addressing. On July 19, […]

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You Shouldn't Pay For Winter Operability Fix
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You Shouldn’t Pay For Winter Operability Fix

This past winter, the New England region experienced significant price spikes in natural gas and, correspondingly, electricity, as a result of natural gas delivery constraints. The effect on consumers was minimal since most have locked in fixed price contracts for both commodities. There was, however, a significant threat to reliability on the electricity grid. As […]

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Massachusetts Voters Can Impact Energy Laws
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Massachusetts Voters Can Impact Energy Laws

Environmental and energy policies have emerged in the upcoming Massachusetts special election for the seat vacated by former Senator John Kerry, now U.S. Secretary of State. The focus has been on the construction of the proposed XL Pipeline, a pipeline proposed by TransCanada to move oil sands crude from Canada through the middle of the […]

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The True Value of Energy Efficiency Savings
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The True Value of Energy Efficiency Savings

For many years, energy efficiency companies and consumer advocates have argued that the forecasts by ISO New England of energy growth were overstated because they did not fully reflect the impact of efficiency programs implemented by the New England states. Now, a major breakthrough has occurred. The most recent ISO long term forecast of growth […]

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