Massachusetts has led the nation in our energy efficiency program and our state commitments to climate pollution reductions. H.4744, “An Act relative to energy affordability, clean power and economic competitiveness”, abandons that leadership.

This bill, which reads as if it were authored by utilities and fossil fuel companies, passed out of the 
    Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy, and is next scheduled to be voted on in the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Please call or email your reps to tell them that you do NOT support this bill. And if your representative is a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, please contact them ASAP!

• Provisions We Support
• –   Automated solar permitting (Sections 100-102)    
• –   Flexible interconnection programs (Section 90)    
• –   Net metering improvements – removing transition charges, raising municipal capacity to 20MW (Sections 67-75)    
• –   Virtual Power Plant requirements (Section 57)    
• –   Portable solar recognition (Section 78)
• –   Interconnection deposit flexibility (Section 59)
• Provisions We Do NOT Support
• –   Establishing “ratepayer impact” tests that exclude health, climate, and economic benefits—these will kill every clean energy program (Section 61)
• –   Freezing Mass Save at $4 billion, eliminating $2.8 billion in annual benefits while adding impossible weatherization prerequisites (Section 9)
• –   Slashing renewable energy growth from 3% to 1% annually (Section 16)
• –   Diverting 70% of Alternative Compliance Payments away from renewable development (Section 17)
• –   Stripping greenhouse gas valuations from cost-effectiveness calculations (Sections 5-6, 8-9)
• –   Terminating Alternative Portfolio Standard by 2028, killing storage support (Section 18)
• –   Punishing municipalities pursuing fossil-free codes by denying Mass Save access (Section 94)
• –   Making emissions targets advisory and creating subjective affordability vetoes (Section 2-3)