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Massachusetts Profile
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Data
Last Update: November 20, 2014 | Next Update: December 18, 2014
Energy Indicators
Demography
Massachusetts
Share of U.S.
Period
Population
6.7 million
2.1%
2013
3.5 million
2.3%
Sep-14
Economy
Massachusetts
U.S. Rank
Period
Gross Domestic
Product
$ 431.9 billion
12
2012
Gross Domestic
Product for the
Manufacturing Sector
$ 44,390 million
17
2012
$ 56,923
2013
22
2012
Land in Farms
46
2012
Petroleum
Massachusetts
U.S. Average
Period
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$ 90.66 /barrel
Aug-14
Natural Gas
Massachusetts
U.S. Average
Period
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City Gate
$ 9.22 /thousand cu ft
$ 5.30 /thousand cu ft
Aug-14
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Residential
$ 16.23 /thousand cu ft
$ 17.39 /thousand cu ft
Aug-14
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Coal
Massachusetts
U.S. Average
Period
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2012
Delivered to Electric
Power Sector
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Electricity
Massachusetts
U.S. Average
Period
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Residential
17.69 cents/kWh
13.01 cents/kWh
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Commercial
14.76 cents/kWh
11.07 cents/kWh
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Industrial
12.60 cents/kWh
7.38 cents/kWh
Aug-14
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Reserves
Massachusetts
Share of U.S.
Period
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Crude Oil
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2012
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--
2012
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Expected Future
Production of Natural
Gas Plant Liquids
--
--
2012
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Recoverable Coal at
Producing Mines
--
--
2012
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Massachusetts
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Period
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Rotary Rigs in
Operation
0 rigs
0.0%
2013
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2013
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Production
Massachusetts
Share of U.S.
Period
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Total Energy
0.2%
2012
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Crude Oil
--
--
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--
2013
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Coal
--
--
2012
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Capacity
Massachusetts
Share of U.S.
Period
--
2014
1.2%
Aug-14
Net Electricity
Generation
Massachusetts
Share of U.S.
Period
0.8%
Aug-14
Net Electricity
Massachusetts
Generation (share of
total)
U.S. Average
Period
Petroleum-Fired
0.5 %
0.3 %
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Natural Gas-Fired
74.3 %
31.6 %
Aug-14
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Coal-Fired
1.4 %
38.9 %
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Nuclear
14.5 %
18.5 %
Aug-14
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Hydroelectric
2.6 %
5.2 %
Aug-14
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Other Renewables
5.4 %
4.9 %
Aug-14
Stocks
Massachusetts
Share of U.S.
Period
Motor Gasoline
(Excludes Pipelines)
9 thousand barrels
Aug-14
1.5%
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Natural Gas in
Underground Storage
--
--
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Petroleum Stocks at
Electric Power
Producers
4.1%
Aug-14
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None
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Petroleum Refineries
None
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Major Non-Nuclear
Electricity Generating
Plants
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Massachusetts
Petroleum Ports
Boston.
None
Major Pipelines
Massachusetts
Crude Oil
None
Petroleum Product
None
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Interstate Natural Gas Algonquin Gas Transmission Co., Maritimes/Northeast Pipeline Co.,
Pipelines
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.
Fueling Stations
Massachusetts
Share of U.S.
Period
Motor Gasoline
2,025 stations
1.8%
2011
Liquefied Petroleum
Gases
20 stations
0.7%
2013
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Compressed Natural
Gas
20 stations
1.7%
2013
Ethanol
8 stations
0.3%
2013
2.6%
2013
Massachusetts
U.S. Rank
Period
Total Consumption
28
2012
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45
2012
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Total Expenditures
17
2012
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38
2012
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by End-Use Sector
Massachusetts
Share of U.S.
Period
Residential
2.1%
2012
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Commercial
1.6%
2012
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Industrial
0.8%
2012
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Transportation
1.7%
2012
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Residential
$ 6,828 million
2.9%
2012
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Commercial
$ 3,679 million
2.1%
2012
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Industrial
$ 3,112 million
1.4%
2012
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Transportation
$ 12,698 million
1.8%
2012
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Massachusetts
Share of U.S.
Period
Petroleum
1.5%
2012
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Natural Gas
416.4 billion cu ft
1.6%
2012
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Coal
0.1%
2012
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Petroleum
$ 15,851 million
1.8%
2012
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Natural Gas
$ 3,408 million
2.6%
2012
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Coal
$ 90 million
0.2%
2012
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$ 26,317 million
Consumption
Expenditures
by Source
Consumption
Expenditures
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Consumption for
Massachusetts
Electricity Generation
Share of U.S.
Period
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Petroleum
25 thousand barrels
1.4%
Aug-14
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Natural Gas
16,775 million cu ft
1.8%
Aug-14
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Coal
Aug-14
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U.S. Average
Period
Natural Gas
49.9 %
48.3 %
2013
Fuel Oil
29.2 %
5.5 %
2013
Electricity
14.6 %
37.4 %
2013
Liquefied Petroleum
Gases
3.2 %
4.8 %
2013
Other/None
3.0 %
3.9 %
2013
Environment
Special Programs
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Massachusetts
Share of U.S.
Period
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Alternative Fueled
Vehicles in Use
11,161 vehicles
0.9%
2011
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Ethanol Plant
Operating Capacity
0 million gal/year
0.0%
2014
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Ethanol Consumption
2.2%
2012
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Total Emissions
Massachusetts
Share of U.S.
Period
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Carbon Dioxide
1.2%
2011
Electric Power
Industry Emissions
Massachusetts
Share of U.S.
Period
Carbon Dioxide
0.7%
2012
Sulfur Dioxide
0.4%
2012
Nitrogen Oxide
0.6%
2012
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Analysis
Last Updated: December 18, 2013
Overview
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Massachusetts is among the most densely populated states in the nation and
home to more than two of every five New England residents. However, the
population is concentrated in the east, near Boston, and half of the state's land
remains forested. The state rises from the coastal marshes of Cape Cod on the
east to the fringes of the Taconic, Green and White Mountains to the north and
west. Precipitation is equally distributed over the four seasons, and even coastal
areas can get heavy snows. The ocean-moderated climate to the east helps make
Massachusetts the nation's second largest grower of cranberries, while the western
hills thrive on wood products and tourism.
Per capita energy consumption is low, in part because of aggressive state
efficiency programs and the Massachusetts economy's reliance on less energyintensive industries such as financial services, information technology, health care,
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State efficiency
programs help
make
Massachusetts
among the least
energy-intensive
states.
and clean energy technologies. Industrial consumption of energy is typically in the lower one-third nationally. The
transportation and residential sectors lead state energy consumption.
Petroleum
The Port of Boston, the oldest continuously active port in the nation, has petroleum product terminals that supply most of
Massachusetts's oil demand. Massachusetts does not produce or refine petroleum. Refined products are transported to
Boston Harbor by ship or barge, mainly from East and Gulf Coast refineries, Canada, and Europe for redistribution inland.
In addition, two small-capacity product pipelines run from ports in Connecticut and Rhode Island to Springfield in central
Massachusetts.
Massachusetts is one of a handful of states that require the statewide use of reformulated motor gasoline blended with
ethanol to limit ozone formation. One in three Massachusetts homes is heated primarily with fuel oil, making the state, like
much of New England, vulnerable to distillate fuel oil shortages and price spikes during the winter months.
In early 2000, heating oil prices rose sharply when extreme weather increased demand while frozen rivers hindered
delivery of new supply. That year, the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve was created to cushion against a future
shortage. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy converted the reserve to ultra-low-sulfur diesel (ULSD) to correspond
with decisions by several northeastern states to begin requiring ULSD for heating. Massachusetts will phase in ULSD
between 2014 and 2018. One of the new reserves, with half a million barrels, is in Revere. The other, of equal size, is in
Groton, Connecticut.
Natural gas
Massachusetts produces no natural gas but consumes half of the natural gas used in New England. Electric power
generators and the residential sector are the state's leading consumers of natural gas. Massachusetts receives its
supplies by pipeline from other states and Canada, and by ship as liquefied natural gas (LNG), mainly from the Caribbean
and the Middle East. Pipelines entering the state from New York and Rhode Island bring natural gas from the U.S. Gulf
and Pennsylvania. A pipeline from Maine through New Hampshire brings in Canadian gas.
Massachusetts has the only LNG import terminals in New England, at Everett on
Boston Harbor and offshore from Gloucester. Together with the Canaport LNG
terminal in St. John, New Brunswick, which sends natural gas south by pipeline,
the terminals typically deliver about one-fourth of New England's natural gas
supply. With U.S. natural gas prices low in 2011 and 2012, LNG deliveries were
largely limited to contract deliveries at Everett and Canaport. Massachusetts
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typically transmits natural gas by pipeline to other New England states during the
year, but it is a net exporter only to Connecticut.
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import
terminals.
Coal
Like other New England states, Massachusetts is gradually generating less electricity from coal, dropping from about onefourth of net generation in years past to about one-tenth recently. With no active coal mining, Massachusetts obtains all of
its coal either from foreign suppliers by ocean vessel or from West Virginia and Kentucky by rail.
Massachusetts has three operational coal-fired generating plants. Owners of the Salem Harbor plant, north of Boston, plan
to repower it with natural gas after 2014, and owners of the Brayton Point plant, on the coast at Somerset, say it will be
shut permanently in 2017. The remaining coal-fired plant is near Holyoke in the state's center. Small industrial coal-fired
plants also generate power for two manufacturing complexes in Worcester and Springfield.
Electricity
Natural gas has become the dominant fuel for Massachusetts electricity, producing
two-thirds of net generation. At the turn of the century, as much as half of the
state's net electric generation came from coal and petroleum. Now, almost no
petroleum is used, and coal has dropped to around one-tenth of net generation.
Nearly one-third of the state's generating capacity is still either petroleum- or coalfired, and, on peak summer days, the New England grid may use petroleum and
coal resources to meet nearly one-fourth of its needs, raising reliability concerns as
those resources are shut down.
As in other New England states, the switch to natural gas in Massachusetts has
been driven by its recent low cost compared to both coal and petroleum. Virtually
all new non-renewable electricity generation being planned in Massachusetts
would be fueled by natural gas. Massachusetts also typically gets more than oneeighth of its net electricity generation from the Pilgrim nuclear power plant in
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Renewable energy
Compliance with Massachusetts' Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) began in 2003, making it the oldest in New
England. The RPS, as amended in 2008, requires companies selling retail electricity in Massachusetts to obtain 1% more
from specified renewable sources each year. There is no ceiling to the obligation. Under that requirement, renewable
generation must account for 15% of total electricity sold in 2020.
The state is limiting the amount of generation that counts toward the RPS from older biomass and waste-to-energy
facilities, requiring more electricity to come from new renewable generators. The state is also revamping its rules for use of
woody biomass to ensure all generation counted in the RPS is environmentally sustainable. Massachusetts' in-state
renewable generation currently comes almost entirely from biomass and small hydroelectric facilities.
Most new renewable generating resources planned in New England are windpowered, and Massachusetts has set a goal of 2,000 megawatts of wind capacity
by 2020. About 5% of that capacity was in place by mid-2013. Federal studies rank
Massachusetts' wind resources as excellent around Cape Cod and the islands of
Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Some ridge crests in the Berkshire Mountains in
western Massachusetts also have good potential. Most wind development so far
has been in the Berkshires.
But offshore regions have the highest wind resource potential. Massachusetts
issued the nation's first comprehensive Ocean Energy Management Plan for state
waters in 2010, identifying areas appropriate for offshore wind development.
Massachusetts is the site of the first federally approved proposed offshore wind
Massachusetts
aims to have
2,000
megawatts of
wind and 1,600
megawatts of
solar capacity
by 2020.
project, Cape Wind, and is working with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management to open more offshore areas for wind development. With federal
grants, the state in 2011 opened the first U.S. facility able to test wind turbine blades up to 90 feet long.
Massachusetts's RPS includes a solar "carve-out" that will grow to 400 megawatts of solar capacity. As of mid-2013,
Massachusetts had surpassed a separate goal, set by the governor, of 250 megawatts of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity;
the governor reset the goal to 1,600 megawatts by 2020. State solar facilities include an 8,200-panel facility on the site of
a former metal foundry in Springfield. At 2.3 megawatts, it was New England's largest solar PV facility when it opened in
2011, but another Massachusetts solar facility reached 5 megawatts less than 2 years later.
Other Resources
Energy-Related Regions and Organizations
Regional Transmission Organization (RTO): ISO New England (ISO-NE)
Petroleum Administration for Defense District (PADD): 1A
North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Region: Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC)
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Other Websites
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Department of Public Utilities
Massachusetts Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development, Housing Energy Programs
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Energy, Utilities & Clean Technologies
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Green Communities
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Clean Cities Coalition and Alternative
Transportation
Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicle Data Center - Federal and State Incentives and Laws
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, Energy, Utilities & Clean Technologies,
Energy Efficiency
Benefits.Gov Energy Assistance (105)
DSIRE - Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency
National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC)
National Association of State Energy Officials (NASEO)
National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)-Issues and Research - News Highlights: Issues and Research Energy
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)-Dynamic Maps, Geographic Information System (GIS) Data and
Analysis Tools - Maps
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Maps, Imagery, and Publications - Maps
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
United States Department of Health and Human Services - Administration for Children and Families - Low Income
Home Energy Assistance Program
Email suggestions for additional Massachusetts website resources to: states@eia.gov.
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