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Water Compared. Appendix AState Telecommunications Electricity Natural Gas[a] [b] [c]Massachusetts 12/86. DPU Order 1731 1996. Utilities began pilots. No legislative activityallowed inter LATAreported.competition for 2 LA TAs, 5/96: DPU issued an order !batintraLA TA toll included Model Rules for 11/95. Order details filingcompetition and full local restructuring the industry and requirements forexchange competition. legislative proposal. DPU established perfonnance-based1995. Alternative1/1/98 as tbe target date for retail ratemaking.competition.regulation began.12/95. PUC approved1/97. Utility began a !-year pilot proposal for a pilotprogram in four communities. Oftbe residential unbundlingpilot participants, 96% oftbe program before 1996business and 66% ofthe residential heating season.consumers chose supplier based onprice, 31% of residential consumers 7/96. A utility receivedchose "green power" supplier. approval to launch tbePioneer Valley Customer9/97. Supreme Court upheld DPU Choice program, tbe firstjurisdiction in MIT case, but did not residential unbundlingconfirm percentage or amount of program in New England.stranded cost recovery.11/96. Utility's commercial11/19/97. Bill passed allowing for and industrial transportationrate cuts of I 0% by 3/98 and another program approved.5% I 8 months later. The legislationalso encourages divestiture of 3/97. A joint motion filedgeneration assets.to address tbe establishmentof unbundled rates and2/98. State will officially open services for all customermarket to competition by 3/1/98. classes on a statewide basisand examine issues relatedFull recovery of stranded costs over to developing competitionI 0-year transitional period; costs and restructuring.must be prior to 3/15/95. DPU has Unbundling for someapproved 2 utilities' plans for transportation services andstranded cost recovery.Agreement with utility allows 2.8cent per kilowatt-hour access charge.Utility will minimize stranded costsby selling its generation assets andpower contracts.interruptible transportationis allowed.<strong>NAWC</strong> 116 September 1998

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