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The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) has approved a new
"market-based" electric tariff for Fitchburg Gas & Electric Co., a combined electric and gas utility. The "Energy Bank Service" for new or expanding industrial customers offers rates competitive with average U.S. industrial rates. Fitchburg presented the new rate offering as consistent with the state's restructuring goals of greater customer choice and access to wholesale market prices, but the DPU rejected the utility's argument that new discount customers should be exempted from any specific stranded-cost charges in the future.
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