PSC order forced Town to split CCA from local distributed-energy program
Summary
Presenter said a late‑2024 Public Service Commission order required CCA supply programs to be conducted separately from distributed energy resource development, prompting the town to adopt two legally separate local laws covering CCA and DER development.
Paul Finn told the meeting that when the town first considered combining supply aggregation and local renewable development into a single legal structure, the state regulator changed course.
"The public service commission ordered in, I think it was late 2024, that CCA programs should be conducted separately from local renewable energy programs," Finn said. As a result, the town adopted two separate local laws: one authorizing Community Choice Aggregation and a second creating a separate distributed energy‑resource development program.
Finn said the bifurcation reflects the regulator's view that supply procurement and local DER investment are governed by different legal and market frameworks and so must be handled separately in filings and program governance.
Why it matters: the regulatory split affects what activities can be included in the CCA filing and requires separate public deliberations and local‑law adoption for the distributed‑energy program described by TGEN.
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