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Advisory board forms financing working group to study distribution costs, rate impacts and alternative funding
Summary
A new focus-area working group will assess distribution-system investment needs, how costs are recovered through rates, alternative public‑private financing mechanisms, and distributional equity implications as Massachusetts electrifies.
The advisory board created a financing-the-transition focus-area working group to analyze how Massachusetts will pay for the distribution-system investments needed to support electrification and decarbonization.
Former DPU chair Paul (presenter) and staff outlined the challenge: recent Electric Sector Modernization Plans (ESMPs) approved by the Department of Public Utilities include billions of dollars in distribution…
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