To the editor:
There is a new state report stating that Massachusetts needs a detailed plan to reduce carbon emissions, build more clean energy, and prepare for more severe weather due to climate change. We need every citizen to do everything possible to tackle the climate crisis, and we need to have every tool in the toolbox available to us.
Some of our state leaders, however, are proposing to shut down the state’s competitive electric market and re-establish a utility monopoly over electricity sales, starting in January. That means that we consumers would lose the freedom to choose an alternate supplier instead of the default utility—a choice which has given me access to renewable energy for many years.
When it is so urgent to move from fossil fuels to renewables, why would the state eliminate our ability to purchase clean, renewable energy? It makes no sense. We need our state leaders to abandon this retrograde effort and embrace all necessary tools for promoting clean energy, including the power of consumer choice.
Alice Sedgwick Wohl
West Stockbridge
