Department of Public Utilities

Massachusetts utility overseers on Friday ordered Eversource and National Grid to split two of the coldest (and often most costly) months of the year into two procurement and billing periods, implementing an idea that Maura Healey’s office proposed when she was attorney general eight years ago. The Department of Public Utilities said that ordering two of the state’s three...

Bay Staters who get their electricity through National Grid’s basic service could see their monthly bill drop by more than $100 under a new rate that would take effect in May, but the cost of power will still be higher than last summer. The utility filed its proposed summer supply rate with the Department of Public Utilities this week, proposing…

When they get their bills in March, most gas customers in Massachusetts are going see a decrease of 4 or 5% after the Department of Public Utilities this week approved a mid-season reduction in gas supply charges as natural gas prices drop. Gas companies are required to buy natural gas at the market rate and pass the costs on to…