Breakthrough Technologies Institute - Fuel Cells 2000

www.mass.gov/doer/pub_info/guidebook.pdf
www.mtpc.org/cleanenergy/howto/interconnection/netppa.htm
A renewable qualifying facility that is 60 kW or less, or an on-site generating facility can
qualify for net metering in Massachusetts. Fuel cell technology is eligible.
Massachusetts’s restructuring law specifically provides that distribution companies
cannot charge exit fees to renewable or distributed generation facilities if certain
conditions are met. If a customer provides the distribution company and the Department
of Telecommunications and Energy with at least six months notice of its plans to install
on-site cogeneration equipment, renewable energy technologies, or fuel cells, it will not
be subject to an exit charge. For facilities that are eligible for net metering—for example,
facilities with a design capacity of 60 kW or less—no such six-month notice is even
required.
Contact:
Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy
Electric Power Division
One South Station
Boston, MA 02110
Phone: (617) 305-3575
E-mail: EPD.Filing@state.ma.us
Web: www.mass.gov/dte/restruct/competition/index.htm
VEHICLES
Fuel Source and Emissions Disclosure
www.mass.gov/dte/cmr/220cmr1100.pdf
In 2003, the Department of Telecommunications and Energy issued an order requiring
that each competitive retail electric supplier provide its customers an information
disclosure label containing the price, fuel source, emissions, and labor characteristics of
the supplier’s generation resource portfolio. Competitive suppliers are required to
update the information presented on their disclosure labels on a quarterly basis, using
market settlement data or equivalent data provided by the Independent System Operator
– New England for the most recent one-year period. Fuel source characteristics must
be separately identified on the label and listed in alphabetical order: biomass; coal;
hydro-large; hydro-small; imports; municipal trash; natural gas; nuclear; oil; other
Renewable Resources (including fuel cells utilizing renewable fuel sources, landfill gas,
and ocean thermal); solar; and wind.
Contact:
Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy
Electric Power Division
One South Station
Boston, MA 02110
Phone: (617) 305-3575
E-mail: EPD.Filing@state.ma.us
Web: www.mass.gov/dte/restruct/competition/index.htm
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