The Board meets on the first and third Monday of each month. Meetings begin at 1:00 p.m. and are held in the department conference room at 65 Lafayette Ave, Littleton. Board meetings are open to the public and time is allotted for public comments at each meeting.
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The regularly scheduled business meeting of the Littleton Water and Light (LWL) Board of Commissioners (BOC) began at 1:08 p.m. on Monday, January 05, 2026, in the LWL conference room. Present were Commissioner Ralph Ross, and CEO Lori Hogan.
Public in attendance – BG Frazier
MINUTES REVIEW:
Defer to next meeting as there is no quorum.
APPOINTMENTS: None
CUSTOMER & PUBLIC CONCERNS: None
OPERATIONS MANAGER:
Mrs. Hogan noted IC Reed is scheduled to complete the Line 30 repairs the 3rd week of January. Permits are pending but anticipated.
The water department is working to identify the customers with sprinkled buildings for the new rate schedule.
CEO & TREASURER:
Mrs. Hogan reviewed a summary of strategic goals / projects that was discussed with ENE for 2026. The summary has been added as Attachment A.
Mrs. Hogan discussed the need to expand our strategy to develop a 5-year plan to provide rate stabilization. The key elements are to expand the pool of bidders and to utilize a layering strategy to lock in future years to develop a baseline for price averaging.
We need to be ready for a spring offer with the ENE bundled bid, our hope is that this will provide an improvement in rate by $10 – $15 basis points.
ENE is also recommending that we consider purchasing recs as they are anticipating an increase in value due to the changes in legislation in MA for an increase % of renewables. LWL has no experience with purchasing / reselling recs but is something that Mrs. Hogan will research further and utilize ENE experience.
Transmission costs are a key element and a driver of the highest % increase over the past 2 years to LWL’s expenses. The industry is offsetting these costs through peak shaving via use of battery storage. ENE has experience with more than 40 battery storage projects. We’ll schedule a review of recommended partners and the changes in safety via equipment that contain no combustible elements.
LWL’s decision to terminate the relationship with Convergent Energy has proven to be the correct decision. It’s just unfortunate that the warrant article has to be reposted. Mrs. Hogan is working through the legal questions related to reposting of the article and completed a review of commissioner’s minutes from 1996 – 2004 as requested by Town council.
Mrs. Hogan discussed the need for a hedge policy and will work with ENE to draft and present to the commissioners for approval. After the contract with NextEra expires in 2030, we’ll only have agreements with Macquire. Our energy futures pool needs to be diversified.
Mrs. Hogan noted we have three large electrical projects scheduled for 2026 and 2027. National Grid is discussing a large project to change the Pattenville interconnection. This may impact our 1997 agreement and purchase of stranded costs.
The other large project is the substations in anticipation of the rebuild of the Lafayette substation in 2027 and the related cashflow.
Mrs. Hogan noted that the auditors have completed the inventory test counts and preliminary fieldwork. The final audit will be conducted the third week of February.
The DES emergency response plan is due to be filed by March 31,2026. This plan requires signatures of the commissioners.
GENERAL / OTHER BUSINESS: None
The meeting was adjourned at 1:55 p.m.
The regularly scheduled Commissioner’s meeting is held twice monthly on the first and third Monday, at 1:00 p.m., in the Department’s conference room.