SENATE DOCKET, NO. 593        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1507

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to dynamic pricing for electric customers in the commonwealth..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any General or Special Law to the contrary, the department of public utilities shall establish rules and regulations pursuant to the establishment of a pilot program by any electric distribution company operating in the commonwealth to offer a real-time, dynamic pricing structure for large commercial and industrial customers on basic service and time-of-use rates, or the equivalent, for residential and small commercial and industrial customers on basic service.