Massachusetts Statutes

Section 11D. To enable retail customers to realize savings from electric utility restructuring, the commissioner, in consultation with local and state-wide consumer groups, is hereby authorized and directed to undertake activities, subject to appropriation, to assist consumers in…

Section 11E. The department is hereby authorized and directed to monitor any independent systems operator or power exchanges organized pursuant to the provisions of chapter 164. The department shall determine the extent to which said operators and exchanges serve the needs of ret…

Section 11F. (a) The department shall establish a renewable energy portfolio standard for all retail electricity suppliers selling electricity to end-use customers in the commonwealth. By December 31, 1999, the department shall determine the actual percentage of kilowatt-hours sa…

Section 11G. The department of energy resources shall have the authority to oversee and coordinate ratepayer-funded energy efficiency programs. The department shall seek to achieve goals including, but not limited to, the following: (i) ensure that energy efficiency funds are all…

Section 11H. (a) The department of energy resources may make an assessment against each electric and gas utility company doing business in the commonwealth. This section shall not apply to municipally owned electric and gas companies. (b) The assessments shall be made to finance …

Section 11I. (a) A state agency, local governmental body or building authority may use this section in the procurement of energy management services as an alternative to the procedures in section 11C. Nothing in this section shall preclude any such agency, body or authority from …

Section 12. Except for emergency regulations adopted pursuant to section two of chapter thirty A, and except for actions taken under section eight of this chapter, any regulation, as defined in section one of said chapter thirty A, or any amendment or repeal of any such regulatio…

Section 13. (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary, the department may apply for, receive, retain, redeem, sell or transfer any energy conservation credits, renewable energy certificates or credits, emissions credits, or energy reduction allowances earned …

Section 14. (a) A state agency, building authority, local governmental body or the judiciary may contract for energy conservation projects that have a total project cost of $300,000 or less, directly and without further solicitation, with electric and gas utilities, their subcont…

Section 15. (a) For solar photovoltaic projects with a total project cost that is less than $100,000, a state agency, building authority or local governmental body may acquire photovoltaic panels and associated equipment for onsite use of the energy generated by these panels from…

Section 16. (a) For the purposes of this section and section 19, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''Electric vehicle'', a battery electric vehicle that draws propulsion energy solely from an on-board electrical e…

Section 17. (a) Every retail electric supplier providing service under contracts executed or extended after December 31, 2018, shall provide a minimum percentage of kilowatt-hour sales to end-use customers in the commonwealth from clean peak resources. Not later than December 31,…

Section 18. (a) Upon issuance by the department of a notice of non-compliance, any alternative compliance payment, as defined in 225 CMR 14.02, owed by a retail electric supplier pursuant to sections 11F, 11F1/2 and 17, including any interest, additional amount, addition to debt …

Section 19. (a) There shall be an Electric Vehicle Adoption Incentive Trust Fund to be expended, without further appropriation, by the department of energy resources for funding electric vehicle incentive programs consistent with this section. The fund shall be credited with: (i)…

Section 2. The commissioner shall be the executive and administrative head of the department of energy resources and shall be responsible for administering and enforcing the provisions of law relative to the division and to each administrative unit thereof. There shall be within …

Section 20. (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— ''Building'', a building or multiple buildings on a parcel, or any grouping of buildings designated by the department as an appropr…

Section 21. (a) As used in this section, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''Anaerobic digestion facility'', a facility that: (i) generates electricity from a biogas produced by the accelerated biodegradation of o…

Section 3. For the purposes of this chapter the following words shall have the following meanings:— ''Adaptation projects'', public infrastructure projects designed to mitigate adjustments in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli and associat…

Section 4. Subject to appropriation, the commissioner of energy resources with the approval of the governor may appoint such persons as he shall deem necessary to perform the functions of the department and his office, provided that the provisions of chapter thirty-one and sectio…

Section 5. The commissioner shall file an annual report with the clerks of the senate and the house of representatives, the joint committee on telecommunications, utilities and energy and the senate and house committees on ways and means: (a) listing the number of employees of th…

Section 6. The department and its appropriate administrative units shall:— (1) develop and administer programs relating to energy conservation, alternative energy development, non-renewable energy supply and resource development, energy bond authority, energy information, and ene…

Section 7. The department shall have the authority to collect price, inventory and product delivery data, including amounts and types of product sold, and other information which is specifically necessary and material regarding petroleum products, electricity, natural gas, and ot…

Section 8. The governor shall have the authority to declare an energy emergency in the commonwealth due to actual or imminent severe energy supply interruption in the commonwealth, or resulting from the obligating of the United States under the international energy program of the…

Section 9. To assist the office in the discharge of its duties, the commissioner may request from any agency or political subdivision of the commonwealth any information relevant to the discharge of such duties. An information copy of each application submitted by any state agenc…

Section 1. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the ''Massachusetts Appliance Efficiency Standards Act''.

Section 10. The commissioner shall study and evaluate the effectiveness of energy efficiency in the commonwealth as well recommend new or increased efficiency standards. Such study and evaluation shall be conducted in consultation with interested parties. The commissioner shall f…

Section 2. As used in this chapter the following words shall, unless the context requires otherwise, have the following meanings: ''Ballast'', a device used with an electric discharge lamp to obtain necessary circuit conditions (voltage, current and waveform) for starting and ope…

Section 3. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to the testing, certification and enforcement of efficiency standards for lamps and the following types of new appliances sold, offered for sale or installed in the commonwealth: (a) refrigerators, refrigerator-freezers and fr…

Section 4. No new appliance covered by clauses (a) to (e), inclusive, of section 3 may be sold, offered for sale or installed in the commonwealth on or after January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-eight, unless the energy efficiency of the appliance meets or exceeds the stand…

Section 5. The commissioner may, by regulation, update energy efficiency standards for the types of new products set forth in clauses (f) to (y), inclusive, of section 3. Any revision of such efficiency standards shall be based upon the determination of the commissioner; provided…

Section 6. The commissioner shall adopt procedures for testing the energy efficiency of the appliances and lamps covered by this chapter if such procedures are not provided for in any other applicable code regarding the testing of appliance efficiency. The commissioner shall use …

Section 7. Manufacturers of appliances and lamps covered by this chapter shall certify to the commissioner that such appliances and lamps are in compliance with the provisions of this chapter. The commissioner shall promulgate regulations governing the certification of appliances…

Section 8. The commissioner may cause periodic inspections to be made of distributors or retailers of new appliances in order to determine compliance with this chapter. The commissioner may also work with the chairman of the board of building regulations and standards to coordina…

Section 9. If the commissioner determines that a federal statute, rule or determination would supersede any requirement of this act, or if the commissioner is notified by the United States Department of Energy that a petition has been filed to supersede any requirement of this ac…

Section 1. There shall be in the office of consumer affairs and business regulation a department of telecommunications and cable, in this chapter called the department, for the general supervision of telephone and telegraph companies subject to chapter 166 and community antenna t…

Section 2. The department shall be under the supervision and control of a commissioner who shall be appointed by the governor for a term coterminous with that of the governor, and who shall serve at the pleasure of the governor. The commissioner shall devote his full time to the …

Section 3. The commissioner shall be sworn to the faithful performance of his official duties. The commissioner shall not own, or be in the employ of, or own any stock in any regulated industry company, nor shall he be in any way directly or indirectly pecuniarily interested in o…

Section 4. The commissioner shall have and exercise supervision and control over all the affairs of the department. He shall preside at all hearings at which he is present, and shall designate an employee of the department to act as presiding officer in his absence.

Section 5. Notwithstanding clause Twenty-sixth of section 7 of chapter 4 and section 10 of chapter 66, the department may protect from public disclosure trade secrets, confidential, competitively sensitive or other proprietary information provided in the course of proceedings con…

Section 6. There shall be in the department and under the supervision and control of the commissioner a division of telecommunications. The division, subject to such supervision and control, shall perform functions that the commissioner may determine in relation to the administra…

Section 6A. (a) For purposes of this section, the following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:— ''Internet Protocol enabled service'' or ''IP enabled service'', service, capability, functionality, or application provided using …

Section 7. The commissioner may make an assessment against each cable television, telephone and telegraph company under the jurisdictional control of the department, based upon the intrastate operating revenues subject to the jurisdiction of the department of each such company de…

Section 8. (a) Notwithstanding chapter 159 or any other general or special law to the contrary, the department shall have no jurisdiction, general supervision, regulation or control over wireless service, including mobile radio telephone service or radio utilities. (b) Nothing in…

Section 9. Consistent with the policies of the Federal Communications Commission, the department shall have authority to request and obtain information and data from providers of advanced telecommunications capability as necessary to identify areas that lack adequate advanced tel…