The Healey-Driscoll Office of Energy Transformation, created earlier this year, formed the advisory board to provide advice and guidance to the Office, MMWEC noted on July 3.
The advisory board includes a broad range of stakeholders, including utilities, generators, labor, finance, environmental justice advocates, technology providers, building owners, developers and others.
The Office of Energy Transition is charged with affordably, equitably, and responsibly accelerating the gas-to-electric transition and readying the electric grid to meet the state’s climate and clean energy mandates.
OET’s first three priority focus areas are transitioning away from the Everett Marine Terminal LNG facility, decarbonizing how the state meets peak electric demand, and establishing alternative mechanisms to finance the clean energy transition.
DeCurzio looks forward to offering the public power perspective on the advisory board, MMWEC noted.
“I am honored to serve on this advisory board tackling critically important issues for our clean energy future,” said DeCurzio. “Municipal utilities offer unique, innovative decarbonization programs and play an essential role in this transition. I look forward to working with my peers to develop strategic solutions and ensuring the transition to the future grid results in equitability, affordability and reliability.”
MMWEC is a not-for-profit, public corporation and political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts created by an Act of the General Court in 1975 and authorized to issue tax-exempt debt to finance a wide range of energy facilities.
MMWEC provides a variety of power supply, financial, risk management and other services to the state’s consumer-owned, municipal utilities. It is the largest provider of asset-owned generation for municipal light departments in New England.
