ORDER ON JOINT MOTION FOR CLARIFICATION FILED BY THE GAS LOCAL DISTRIBUTION COMPANIES. By Chair Van Nostrand, Commissioners Fraser and Rubin. D.P.U. 20-80-C
Reply Comments of the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection to the Joint Motion for Clarification by the Gas Local Distribution Companies
Joint Motion for Clarification of the December 6, 2023 Order, and Joint Motion to Extend the Judicial Appeal Period, filed on behalf of The Berkshire Gas Company, NSTAR Gas Company and Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts each d/b/a Eversource Energy, Liberty Utilities (New England Natural Gas Company) Corp. d/b/a Liberty, Boston Gas Company d/b/a National Grid, and Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Until. D.P.U. 20-80-B
Joint Motion for Extension of Time to submit a Joint Motion for Clarification of the December 6, 2023 Order, filed on behalf of behalf of The Berkshire Gas Company, NSTAR Gas Company and Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts each d/b/a Eversource Energy, Liberty Utilities (New England Natural Gas Company) Corp. d/b/a Liberty, Boston Gas Company d/b/a National Grid, and Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Until.
Comments by the following interested persons: Andee Krasner, Program Manager, Climate and Health, Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility; Sarah Griffith, Member, Climate Reality Project Boston Metro Chapter;
Martyn Roetter, Member, Gas Leaks Allies, National Grid Gas Customer, Independent Technology and Management Consultant; Nathan Phillips, Professor, Boston University; Member, Gas Leaks Allies; National Grid Gas customer;
Cathy Kristofferson, Co-founder, Pipe Line Awareness Network for the Northeast (PLAN); Alice Arena, President, Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station (FRRACS); Ania Camargo, Coordinator, Mothers Out Front Downtown Boston; Karen Kraut, Member, Mothers Out Front Brookline; Charles W. Lidz, Vice Chair, Ashland Sustainability Committee; Sarah Krame, Associate Attorney, Sierra Club; Kyle Murray, Senior Advocate and Massachusetts Program Director, Acadia Center; Anne Wright, Coordinator, Mothers Out Front Massachusetts Clean Heat, Clean Air Campaign; Marilyn Ray Smith, Member, Gas Transition Allies, Brookline GreenSpace Alliance, Emerald Necklace Conservancy; National Grid customer; Edward Woll, Member, Gas Transition Allies; Elders Climate Action Massachusetts Legislative Team; Mothers Out Front Legislative Team; Eversource customer; Sharon deVos, Member, Mothers Out Front Cambridge; Randi Soltysiak, Coordinator, Mothers Out Front Somerville; Ellie Goldberg, Member, Mothers Out Front Newton; Priya Gandbhir, Staff Attorney, Conservation Law Foundation; John Metzger, Member, No Pipeline Westborough.
: Local Distribution Gas Companies : Information Request Responses
Local Distribution Companies' responses to the Seventh Set of Common Information Requests issued by the Department of Public Utilities. Joint Motion for Extension of Time for Information Request DPU-Comm 7-2.
: Eversource Energy : Information Request Responses
Responses of NSTAR Electric Company and Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts each d/b/a Eversource Energy, to the Second Set of Information Requests issued to the Company by the Department of Public Utilities.
: Local Distribution Companies : Information Request Responses
Responses of the Local Distribution Companies to the Sixth Set of Common Information Requests1 issued by the Department of Public Utilities. Joint Motion for Extension of Time for Information Requests DPU-Comm 5-28 through DPU-Comm 5-31.
: Eversource Energy : Information Request Responses
Responses of NSTAR Gas Company and Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts each d/b/a Eversource Energy to the First Set of Information Requests issued by the Department of Public Utilities
Department of Public Utilities’ Second Set of Information Requests to NSTAR Gas Company and Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts each d/b/a Eversource Energy
Department of Public Utilities’ First Set of Information Requests to NSTAR Gas Company and Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts each d/b/a Eversource Energy
: Local Distribution Companies : Information Request Responses
Responses of the Distribution Companies to the Fifth Set of Common Information Requests issued by the Department of Public Utilities. Motion for Extension of Time to file responses to the following Information Reauests: DPU-Common 5-1, DPU-Common 5-2, DPU-Common 5-4 through DPU-Common 5-9, DPU-Common 5-11 trough DPU-Common 5-14, DPU-Common 5-17, DPU-Common 5-22 through DPU-Common 5-24, DPU-Common 5-26; and DPU-Common 5-27.
: Local Distribution Companies : Information Request Responses
Response to Information Request DPU 1-8 on behalf of The Berkshire Gas Company, NSTAR Gas Company and Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts each d/b/a Eversource Energy, Liberty Utilities (New England Natural Gas Company) Corp. d/b/a Liberty, Boston Gas Company d/b/a National Grid, and Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Until (collectively the ”LDCs”).
Comments by Jane Winn (Executive Director, Berkshire Environmental Action Team) and Rosemary Wessel (Program Director, No Fracked Gas in Mass, A Program of Berkshire Environmental Action Team)
Joint Framing Letter from Climate and Clean Energy Stakeholders: Conservation Law Foundation; Acadia Center;
Sierra Club; Pipe Line Awareness Network for the Northeast, Inc.; Environmental Defense Fund; and HEET
Transcript of Public Hearing, held via Zoom Video Conference by the Department of Public Utilities, One South Station, Boston, Massachusetts, on Thursday, May 5, 2022, commencing at 2:12 p.m. Vol. B, Pages 142-306.
Transcript of Public Hearing, held via Zoom Video Conference by the Department of Public Utilities, One South Station, Boston, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, commencing at 7:13 p.m. Vol. A, Pages 1-141.
- 05/02/2022
: Public Commenter : Comments
Comments by Jean Cummings, Acton Mothers Out Front
: Local Distribution Companies : Information Request Responses
Responses of The Berkshire Gas Company, NSTAR Gas Company and Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts each d/b/a Eversource Energy, Liberty Utilities (New England Natural Gas Company) Corp. d/b/a Liberty, Boston Gas Company d/b/a National Grid, and Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Until (collectively the ”LDCs”) to the Fourth Set of Common Information Requests issued by the Department of Public Utilities
: Local Distribution Companies : Information Request Responses
Responses of The Berkshire Gas Company, NSTAR Gas Company and Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts each d/b/a Eversource Energy, Liberty Utilities (New England Natural Gas Company) Corp. d/b/a Liberty, Boston Gas Company d/b/a National Grid, and Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Until (collectively the ”LDCs”) to the Third Set of Common Information Requests issued by the Department of Public Utilities.
: Local Distribution Companies : Information Request Responses
Responses on behalf of The Berkshire Gas Company, NSTAR Gas Company and Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts each d/b/a Eversource Energy, Liberty Utilities (New England Natural Gas Company) Corp. d/b/a Liberty, Boston Gas Company d/b/a National Grid, and Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Until (collectively the ”LDCs”) to the Second Set of Common Information Requests issued by the Department of Public Utilities.
: Local Distribution Companies : Information Request Responses
Responses on behalf of The Berkshire Gas Company, NSTAR Gas Company and Eversource Gas Company of Massachusetts each d/b/a Eversource Energy, Liberty Utilities (New England Natural Gas Company) Corp. d/b/a Liberty, Boston Gas Company d/b/a National Grid, and Fitchburg Gas and Electric Light Company d/b/a Until (collectively the ”LDCs”) to the First Set of Common Information Requests issued by the Department of Public Utilities.
Motion for Reconsideration and to Extend the Procedural Order and Provide for Additional Process, jointly filed by Acadia Center, Conservation Law Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, Home Energy Efficiency Team, and Sierra Club.
Order of Notice; Notice of Filing and Public Hearing. Versions of Notices translated into the following languages: Chinese, Haitian Creole, Spanish, Portuguese, and Vietnamese.
Reports by Energy & Environmental Economics (“E3”), with ScottMadden as subcontractor (collectively, “Consultants”), including: (a) Technical Analysis of Decarbonization Pathways Report (“Decarbonization Pathways Report”) and (b)Considerations and Alternatives for Regulatory Designs to Support Transition Plans Report (“Regulatory Designs Report”); A Stakeholder Engagement Report by Environmental Resources Management (“ERM”) to develop and facilitate the stakeholder engagement process; and The LDCs’ Common Regulatory Framework and Overview of Net Zero Enablement Plans (“Framework and Overview”) and Net Zero Enablement Plan Model Tariff (“Tariff”).
Petition of the Office of the Attorney General, pursuant to G.L. c. 12, §§ 11E, 10; and its common law authority to act in the public interest, Requesting an Investigation, pursuant to the Department of Public Utilities’ authority under G.L c. 164, §§ 76, 105A into the impact on the continuing business operations of local gas distribution companies as the Commonwealth achieves its target 2050 climate goals.