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HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3415 FILED ON: 1/17/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3581
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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PRESENTED BY:
Tommy Vitolo
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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:
The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:
An Act supporting electrical load aggregation programs in the Commonwealth.
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PETITION OF:
NAME:DISTRICT/ADDRESS :DATE ADDED:Tommy Vitolo15th Norfolk1/17/2025 1 of 4
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3415 FILED ON: 1/17/2025
HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3581
By Representative Vitolo of Brookline, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3581) of
Tommy Vitolo relative to electrical load aggregation programs. Telecommunications, Utilities
and Energy.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the One Hundred and Ninety-Fourth General Court
(2025-2026)
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An Act supporting electrical load aggregation programs in the Commonwealth.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority
of the same, as follows:
1 SECTION 1. It is hereby found and declared that electrical load aggregation programs
2empower municipalities to create new electricity supply offerings that provide customized
3solutions addressing their consumers’ needs and reflecting the municipality’s capabilities. Such
4solutions may provide benefits including, but not limited to, electricity cost control, reduction of
5greenhouse gas emissions, support for renewable energy development and facilitation of
6beneficial electrification. Further, electrical load aggregation programs may provide residential
7and small business consumers access to solutions that they could not find otherwise. For
8municipalities to effectively offer such solutions, they must be empowered both to create and
9adapt their electrical load aggregation programs in a timely manner and to communicate with the
10electricity consumers within their community using methods that reflect local needs and
11preferences. Therefore, it is found that it is in the public interest to promote electrical load
12aggregation programs through enactment of the following statutory changes. 2 of 4
13 SECTION 2. Section 7, clause twenty-six of chapter 4 of the General Laws, as appearing
14in the 2022 official edition, is hereby amended by inserting the following:
15 (w) All data associated with an individual electricity consumer obtained by a public
16aggregator, as defined in section 1 of Chapter 164.
17 SECTION 3. Section 134 of chapter 164 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022
18official edition, is hereby amended by striking out subsection (a) paragraph 6 and inserting in
19place thereof the following:
20 It shall be the duty of the aggregated entity to fully inform participating ratepayers in
21advance of automatic enrollment that they are to be automatically enrolled and that they have the
22right to opt-out of the aggregated entity without penalty. In addition, such disclosure shall
23prominently state all charges to be made and shall include full disclosure of the basic service
24rate, how to access it, and the fact that it is available to them without penalty. The department of
25energy resources shall furnish, without charge, to any citizen a list of all other supply options
26available to them in a meaningful format that shall enable comparison of price and product. After
27obtaining approval of its plan, the aggregated entity may deliver information and educational
28materials regarding its program to each consumer within the municipality or municipalities. To
29enable such delivery, the electric distribution company shall provide to such aggregated entity a
30current list of the names, mailing addresses, email addresses, service addresses and rate classes
31of all electric consumers taking distribution service within the municipality or municipalities. To
32facilitate the automatic enrollment and ratepayer notification, the electric distribution company
33shall identify in such data all electric accounts within the municipality that are not otherwise
34receiving generation service from a competitive supplier and provide such additional consumer 3 of 4
35information necessary for such automatic enrollment; provided, however, that any customer may
36request that their name, mailing address and account number not be shared with the municipality.
37To monitor program participation, the electric distribution company shall identify in such data
38those consumers that are participating in the electrical load aggregation program. To enable
39development of and bidding for electric energy and energy-related services, the electric
40distribution company shall provide all historical usage and demand information, including
41advanced metering data if collected by the consumer’s meter, for the preceding 24 months for
42consumers eligible for automatic enrollment as well as for participating consumers. The
43aggregated entity may use such data only in connection with the aggregation program and for no
44other purpose. Further, the aggregated entity may only use email addresses provided in such data
45for communications on behalf of the electrical load aggregation program. All data associated
46with an individual electricity consumer obtained by the aggregated entity shall be exempt from
47the definition of a “public record” under M.G.L. c.4 §7 and the aggregated entity shall protect
48such data as confidential. The aggregated entity shall not share, disclose, or otherwise make
49accessible to any third party, including any municipal government, such data except where
50directly necessary in its implementation of the electrical load aggregation program and where
51subject to non-disclosure requirements.
52 SECTION 4. Section 116C of chapter 164 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2024
53official edition, is hereby amended by striking out subsection (b) and inserting in place thereof
54the following:
55 (b) A supplier or other third party shall be entitled to access detailed advanced metering
56infrastructure customer data from the centralized data repository, subject to appropriate customer
57approval and protections. For the avoidance of doubt, municipal aggregators may access detailed 4 of 4
58advanced metering data about individual accounts enrolled with the municipal aggregation and
59eligible for automatic enrollment. Advanced metering infrastructure data may include, but shall
60not be limited to, customer billing period usage data, peak demand, supplier information and
61relevant account information.
62 SECTION 5. Section 1D of chapter 164 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022
63official edition, is hereby amended by inserting in line 22 after the word “parties.” the following:
64 The single bill option from electric utilities shall be available to all non-utility suppliers
65as rate-ready, in which the utility calculates the energy-related charges based on supplier-
66provided inputs for agreed upon parameters. At such time that rate-ready billing for advanced
67metering infrastructure is available, the single bill option from electric utilities shall also be
68available as bill-ready, in which the utility provides the supplier with metered usage and the
69supplier calculates the energy-related charges and provides such charges to the utility. The bill-
70ready single bill shall be available only to supply contracts for municipal aggregators and for
71large commercial and industrial customers.