Overview
- House members of the Joint Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy Committee voted 7-0 to advance a 105-section redraft led by Chair Mark Cusack, with four members reserving their rights.
- The bill would establish an affordability and competitiveness standard for state energy decisions and scale back the 2025–2027 Mass Save plan from $4.5 billion to a $4 billion cap.
- Provisions would decouple Mass Save incentives from greenhouse-gas reduction goals and permit incentives for efficient gas heating systems, shifting the program back to a cost-effectiveness focus.
- Oversight of clean-energy procurements would move to a new Division of Clean Energy Procurement within the Department of Energy Resources, changing how projects are selected and managed.
- The measure extends offshore wind deadlines to 2029, lifts state restrictions on new nuclear plant construction, and tweaks clean peak credits to bolster hydropower, drawing sharp criticism from environmental groups and Cambridge climate officials as supporters cite rising energy costs.