Amendment ID: S2829-73

Amendment 73

Community Choice Aggregation

Messrs. Pacheco and Brady move that the proposed new draft be amended by inserting after Section 18 the following sections:-

"SECTION 18A. 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 replace 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.”

SECTION 18B. Paragraph 6, Section 134(a), of chapter 164 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2022 official edition, is amended with the addition of the following as the final sentence:

“To enable development of and bidding for electric energy and energy-related services, the electric distribution company shall provide all historical usage and demand information, including interval meter data if collected by the consumer’s meter, for the preceding 24 months for consumers eligible for automatic enrollment in the municipal aggregation program as well as for participating consumers.”

SECTION 18C. 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.”

SECTION 18D. “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 only use data obtained under this section in connection with the aggregation program and for no other purpose.  For the avoidance of doubt, 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.”