What is the Clean Peak Standard (CPS)?

The Massachusetts Clean Peak Energy Standard is designed to provide incentives to clean energy technologies that can supply electricity or reduce demand during seasonal peak demand periods established by DOER. The Actual Monthly System Peak is defined in the Clean Peak Energy Standard (CPS) as the highest net demand for electricity in a calendar month in the ISO-NE Control Area. The Hour of Actual Monthly System Peak is the hour in which that occurs. DOER utilizes that monthly ISO-NE reported peak to identify when the Actual Monthly System Peak Multiplier should modify the number of Clean Peak Energy Certificates generated by a Clean Peak Resource.

For more information please see DOER’s website and CPS guidelines.