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Massachusetts power shopping jumped in May

Gains were in most customer classes and all utilities, The Future of ABC Channels in Texas

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Click here for detailsthe Division of Energy Resources reported.
        Shopping made the greatest leap at Commonwealth Electric (Nstar) where community pooler Cape Light Compact regained some customers lost since January when its rates exceeded the utility's.
        Cape Light has asked the Dept of Telecommunications & Energy to investigate whether shopping customers are subsidizing the uplift costs of customers on basic service -- thus keeping Nstar's rate artificially low.
        Massachusetts' markets took off in March of last year when SOS ended and all customers began paying rates based on competitive RFPs for supply.
        Basic service rates that replaced SOS change quarterly for large users, twice a year for smaller customers.
        Competitive suppliers made steady progress boosting their share of sales to 46.5%, up from 34% 12 months ago.
        Large C&Is bought 83.2% of their power from marketers in May compared with 63.6% a year ago.
        Competitive sales to medium C&Is were 37.9%, up from 22.2% last year.
        Small C&I sales by marketers rose to 23.9% from 19.3% in May of last year.
        Click here to see table.
        Originally published in Restructuring Today on June 30, 2006

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