Amendment #98 to H4876

Municipal Aggregation Data Collection and Protection

Mr. Vitolo of Brookline moves to amend the amendment by inserting in section 55 subsection (b), in line 3 after “protections.” the following sentence: “For municipal aggregation programs, Department approval of a municipal aggregation plan pursuant to Chapter 164 section 134 shall constitute appropriate customer approval for all customers eligible for automatic enrollment in the program or participating in the program.”

By inserting after line 1313 in subsection (f) the following subsections:

“(g) Sentence 4, paragraph 6, Section 134(a), of chapter 164 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 official edition, is hereby struck and replaced with the following:

“After obtaining approval of its plan, the aggregator may deliver information and educational materials regarding its program to each consumer within the municipality or municipalities and shall be entitled to receive all such contact information on file with the electric distribution company.”

(h) Section 7, clause twenty-six of chapter 4 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 official edition, is hereby amended by inserting the following:

“(w) All data associated with an individual electricity consumer obtained by a aggregator, as defined in section 1 of Chapter 164.”

(i) Section 134(a), of chapter 164 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 official edition, is amended with the addition of paragraph 7, to read as follows:

“The aggregator may use data obtained under this section in connection with the aggregation program and for no other purpose. The aggregator may only use email address data for communications on behalf of the electrical load aggregation program. The aggregator shall not share, disclose, or otherwise make accessible to any third party such data except where directly necessary in its implementation of the electrical load aggregation program and where subject to non-disclosure requirements.”