3E Relating to energy; removing a requirement for the office of enterprise technology to appropriate software sale fund proceeds to the department of education for the weatherization program; eliminating certain allocations and temporarily prohibiting approval of certain expenditures from the renewable development account; clarifying regional and national duties of the department of commerce relating to energy policy and authorizing an assessment; removing obsolete and redundant language; authorizing electronic notification of cold weather rule; modifying reporting requirements for energy conservation improvements; providing for cost recovery for certain pollution control products; making technical and clarifying changes relating to charitable contributions and securities issuance by utilities; modifying certain low-income affordability programs hearings consideration factors, eliminating inverted block rates (tier pricing) in which lower energy prices are made available to lower usage customers; authorizing the public utilities commission (PUC) to approve multiyear rate plan for certain utilities; providing for nuclear power plant decommissioning and storage of used nuclear fuel; expanding the definition of total retail electric sales; requiring a report on the rate impact of activities of an electric utility; making clarifying and technical changes; providing for regulatory incentives granted to a natural gas-fired plant located on one site designated as an innovative energy project; exempting certain utilities from the conservation improvement program; allowing assessments to energy utilities for department regional and national duties; relieving the energy conservation information center from certain data-gathering responsibilities; modifying the public utilities commission energy conservation annual status report, the state energy-savings plan weatherization programs residential coordination grants and rulemaking, and the electric power facility permits assessment; providing an exemption from greenhouse gas emissions and conservation improvement program; providing a temporary prohibition on public utilities commission approval of certain renewable development account expenditures; permitting the city of Melrose to provide by ordinance for the size, terms and qualifications for membership on the public utilities commission; repealing the natural gas inverted rates program, the energy issues intervention office and the reliability administrator within the department of commerce, and the wind energy conversion system (WECS) aggregation program
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