The proposed act would impose a general requirement that every electric utility company charge a uniform rate per kilowatt hour of electricity. The proposed act would except from this general rule rates charged to other electric utility companies and to residential customers who heat their principle place of residence by electricity. The Act would also permit a different rate to be charged residential customers for the first three hundred (300) kilowatt hours they consume each month, and would authorize "peak load" pricing whereby a higher rate than the uniform rate per kilowatt hour may be charged during the periods of the day or seasons of the year when consumption of electricity is the greatest. The Act would authorize the Department of Public Utilities to issue implementing rules and regulations and provides for enforcement.
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1976 - Statewide - Question 7Do you approve of a law summarized below, which was disapproved by the House of Representatives on May 3, 1976, by a vote of 182-49, and on which no vote was taken by the Senate before May 5, 1976?
County | Blanks | Total Votes Cast | ||||
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Barnstable
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22,708 |
46,746 |
4,859 |
74,313 |
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Berkshire
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8,455 |
56,130 |
5,344 |
69,929 |
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Bristol
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39,524 |
137,265 |
18,416 |
195,205 |
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Dukes
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2,043 |
2,678 |
501 |
5,222 |
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Essex
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66,888 |
220,594 |
20,182 |
307,664 |
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Franklin
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5,796 |
23,705 |
2,168 |
31,669 |
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Hampden
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32,395 |
143,697 |
12,328 |
188,420 |
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Hampshire
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14,508 |
43,457 |
3,000 |
60,965 |
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Middlesex
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170,246 |
442,358 |
41,952 |
654,556 |
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Nantucket
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878 |
1,528 |
257 |
2,663 |
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Norfolk
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77,041 |
214,700 |
16,148 |
307,889 |
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Plymouth
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41,856 |
116,805 |
9,175 |
167,836 |
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Suffolk
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75,791 |
124,274 |
38,449 |
238,514 |
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Worcester
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50,562 |
219,085 |
19,770 |
289,417 |
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Totals | 608,691 |
1,793,022 |
192,549 | 2,594,262 |