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Green Energy Consumers Alliance urges ending or narrowing Massachusetts APS, citing costs and inequities
Summary
A Green Energy Consumers Alliance witness asked the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy to eliminate or sharply curtail the Alternative Portfolio Standard (APS), arguing it raises rates, subsidizes fossil-fuel equipment and disproportionately benefits businesses over residential ratepayers.
Kerry Catayan, a policy advocate with Green Energy Consumers Alliance, told the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy that Massachusetts ratepayers pay roughly $30,000,000 a year more because of the Alternative Portfolio Standard and that the program often subsidizes projects that would have been built without state support.
"Every year, the ratepayers of the Commonwealth pay electric bills that are roughly $30,000,000 higher than they otherwise would be because of the APS," Catayan said, urging the committee to advance H 35, 52 and S 22 68 to cut back on or eliminate the APS.
Catayan told the committee the APS funds fossil-fuel-fired combined heat and power systems and heating oil dealers blending biodiesel, and that…
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