Minutes – Massachusetts Electronic Business Transaction
Working Group – October 12, 2011
Agenda
Present:
Attendee
Juliana Griffiths,
Utility Co-Chair
Monica Neibert,
Supplier Co-Chair
Joan Jerz
Elie Pena
Jean Paul
Mike McSweegan
Paul Kelley
Bruce Kim
Candace Cox
Alex De La Rosa
Marie Guerin
Todd Bohan
Barbara Goubeaud
Jason Sweedler
Douglas Stevenson
Stacy Conn
William Caffall
Nancy Kulina
Kim Wall
Brian Stastny
Suling Wei
Denise Shaw
Patricia Reno
Representing
National Grid
Energy Services Company (ESG)
National Grid
Direct Energy
WMECO
NStar
NStar
NStar
Direct Energy
GDF Suez
Hampshire Council of
Governments
Unitil
ECO InfoSystems
Energy Plus
Energy Options
Energy Plus
Dominion
Dominion
PPLSolutions
PPLSolutions
TransCanada
TransCanada
TransCanada
Juliana Griffiths opened the meeting.
Net Metering
Final approval was obtained for the Net Metering transaction. Utilities will inform the
MassEBT ListServ with their implementation date.
Pat Reno will change the implementation guide and it will be sent to the DPU for
informational purposes.
Reinstatement Transaction
Each utility will send an example of the reinstatement transaction for the suppliers’
reference to the MASSEBT ServList.
Final approval will then be discussed at the next EBT meeting.
Drop Codes
National Grid will try to obtain a possible implement schedule for the drop codes.
Unitil did not have an implementation schedule as of yet.
MA Purchase of Receivables
A joint technical conference was held on September 23, 2011. The Massachusetts
Department of Public Utilities requested the four utilities submit briefs to respond to
the following two legal questions:
Does § 60 of the Acts of 2008, c. 169, An Act Relative to Green Communities,
allow a competitive supplier to opt out of POR while at the same time
maintaining the consolidating billing option through the distribution company?
Does § 60 of the Acts of 2008, c. 169, An Act Relative to Green Communities,
allow an electric distribution company to calculate a POR bad debt rate using a
blended rate (weighted average) for all customer classes, consistent with the
method used to calculate the recovery factor associated with basic service bad
debt costs?
The Utilities are required to file briefs responding to these questions on October 13,
2011.
Discussions are still open regarding the MA POR EDI transactions. If you have any
comments or questions, please send them to Supplier.Services@us.ngrid.com so we can
try to address them prior to the next scheduled EBT meeting. No final decision has been
made on who will be utilizing the MA POR 810/820 transactions.
Nstar/Northeast Utilities Merger
At this time no anticipated changes will impact the suppliers.
Supplier Refunds to Customer
Nstar to obtain further information. For further discussion at next EBT meeting.
New Items – Non-Cash Adjustments
Nancy Kulina from Dominion will be sending out examples of what suppliers have been
receiving from the different utilities. Further discussions will be held at the next EBT
meeting.