Not exact matches
These policy actions include new legislation requiring long - term contracting for renewables and other resources in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, revised incentives for distributed generation resources, changes to RPS polices in other states in New England, proposed Massachusetts - specific CO2 caps, and newly - revised forecasts for
electricity sales that take the full impact of new energy efficiency
measures into account.
While an RES requires that electric utilities generate a certain percentage of
electricity from renewable sources, an EERS requires that they achieve a percentage reduction in energy
sales from energy efficiency
measures.
Electricity sales are 25 percent lower than business - as - usual in 2040 as a result of savings from energy efficiency
measures and standards, as well as demand response programs that pay participating consumers to curtail their energy use at times of peak demand.