Massachusetts RPS

MA: In April 2002, the Massachusetts Division of Energy Resources (DOER) adopted a previously outlined renewable portfolio standard.  The regulations require that 4 percent of the state’s electricity supply come from new renewable sources by 2009.  Sources that count toward the standard include solar, wind, ocean thermal, wave, tidal, fuel cells using renewable fuels, landfill gas, and low emission advanced technology biomass.  The system must have been installed after December 31, 1997 for the source to qualify as “new.”  After 2009, the minimum renewable standard shall increase by one percent per year until the DOER suspends the annual increase.  The minimum renewable standard may at no time decrease below the percentage in effect at the time a suspension is implemented.

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