July 2015 Actions Concerning Solar and Net Metering in MA — Write Governor Baker and State Legislators in July to call for lifting the Net Metering Cap on Solar and call a halt to new gas pipeline infrastructure – See Actions to Take.
Defending Renewable Energy, Solar and Community Shared Solar through Legislation: On June 2, 2015 at the Statehouse in Boston the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy will be holding a public hearing starting at 1:00 P. M. in Gardner Auditorium on bills related to solar energy and net metering. For more details and the bills that will be covered in this hearing see Solar Hearings June 2015
Berkshire Gas asks for more fossil fuels/gas in the future: On June 11, 2015 the MA Department of Public Utilities (DPU) will hold a hearing at the Greenfield Middle School in Greenfield on a petition by Berkshire Gas to sign a contract with Tennessee Gas Pipeline’s NED project to receive 36,000 dekatherms per day of gas through the proposed Kinder Morgan/TGP NED project. This and other petitions to the DPU help set up continuing use of fossils fuels (natural gas) well into the future. See Docket 15-48 – DPU (http://web1.env.state.ma.us/DPU/FileRoom/dockets/bynumber). Enter 15-48 in DPU dockets by number to see comments and original Berkshire Gas petition.
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