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Press Release

RMLD says campaign for fair rates produces positive results

Reading, MA, June 11, 2009 – RMLD customers who signed letters to request the oversight of electric rates addressed to their local congressmen back in January and February have helped change the ways things are run at Independent Systems Operators - New England (ISO-NE), where power is purchased.

As a result of RMLD’s and other public electric utility companies’ encouraging their customers to join consumer groups and state agencies to demand a change, American Public Power Association (APPA) reports generators who bid high costs for peak power they were not capable of producing will no longer be paid even for standby potential. New England consumers paid a reported $86 million over three years for this unfair practice.

APPA reports that ISO-NE filed a petition with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) proposing to close loopholes that allowed some companies to withhold electricity by either submitting supply bids at extremely high prices or simply reneging on delivery when their high-priced bids were accepted. ISO-NE has asked FERC to change its rules to require offers associated with capacity imports to be competitively priced and to tighten its penalty rules, effective July 1.

RMLD General Manager Vinnie Cameron personally delivered about 1,500 letters and pages of petitions with signatures of residents from Reading, North Reading,

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Wilmington and Lynnfield to Congressman John Tierney’s Washington office in February.

Find out more on www.appanet.org or www.fairelectricrates.net and add your comments to the growing grassroots effort.

For immediate release 6-11-09