Across the country Community Choice Aggregation (CCA), which allows cities and towns to buy electricity on behalf of residents and businesses, is being utilized as a key tool to help consumers address climate change by allowing communities to serve as an energy buyer for their constituents with the goal to provide more affordable and cleaner electricity.
PowerOptions recognizes our Members’ need for an incentive program that provides essential financial support to help defray the upfront and ongoing costs associated with EV charging equipment and infrastructure. As part of our advocacy work, on September 14th PowerOptions offered the following comments to the Massachusetts Department of Utilities.
The Act on Climate, which was signed into law by Governor McKee in April 2021, has been hailed as the most influential environmental law ever passed in the Ocean State. It is one of several bills that became law this year that will create new opportunities for organizations to bring more clean energy and energy efficiency into their sustainability efforts in the years ahead.
Groundbreaking climate legislation has taken hold in New England. In the first half of the year, the Governors of Massachusetts and Rhode Island signed bills that will move the two states towards net-zero emissions.
Could the Texas Big Freeze Happen Here? The Valentine’s Week deep freeze in Texas was felt across the country. Not just Texas but the entire country was impacted by natural gas supply disruptions that impacted prices.
Many organizations are seeing substantial savings by going solar, and Massachusetts continues to offer state incentives for organizations that want to make the country and state a greener place to live–while saving money on energy costs.
