Who is a member?
Our members are the local governments of Massachusetts and their elected and appointed leadership.
The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs is inviting local leaders to the first “Electric Connections Improvements Forum” on March 17 at 1 p.m. in Boston.
The Healey-Driscoll administration established the Electric Connections Improvements Forum to bring together utilities, developers, state agencies and other stakeholders semi-annually to:
• Share information about the grid connection process and process improvements under development
• Provide transparency about the work of the state and utilities related to grid connections
• Discuss customer experiences with the grid connections process to identify pain points and collectively develop solutions
The March 17 forum will be held in-person at 100 Cambridge St. in Boston on the 2nd floor in conference rooms B and C. Fill out this form to register.
The second semi-annual Electric Connections Improvements Forum is tentatively scheduled for the afternoon of Sept. 15.
The forums are part of an effort by the administration to work with the state’s investor-owned utilities and stakeholders to further streamline and standardize the grid connection process. More information about these initiatives is available at a new Connecting New Buildings to the Electric Grid website.
National Grid and Eversource will be holding a webinar for municipal leaders on Feb. 27 at noon focused on the use of their online maps to identify real-time grid capacity within each utilities service territory. (Click here to register.)