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ESMP Updates

GMAC Recommendations on the Draft 2024 ESMPs

November 20, 2023

Pursuant to G.L. c. 164, §§ 92B and 92C, the Grid Modernization Advisory Council (GMAC) provided its recommendations to the electric distribution companies (EDCs) on their first draft electric-sector modernization plans (ESMPs) on November 20, 2023. The Final GMAC Report includes the Observations and Recommendations of the Grid Modernization Advisory Council, including the Memorandum of the GMAC Equity Working Group, and other appendices.

This document was voted on and approved by the GMAC on November 16, 2023.

The GMAC thanks the stakeholders, EDCs, Equity Working Group, consultants, and many others who assisted in the review of the ESMPs and creation of this report, and looks forward to the Department of Public Utilities’ review of these plans.