Massachusetts Municipal Light Plants Listed by Senate District

Municipalities may own, maintain and operate a municipal light plant (MLP) in order to provide electric and/or gas services to their citizens.

1st Congressional District

  • Chester …Chester Municipal Electric Light Department
  • Chicopee …Chicopee Municipal Lighting Plant
  • Holyoke …Holyoke Gas & Electric Department
  • Russell …(northern part of town) Russell Municipal Lighting Company
  • South Hadley …South Hadley Electric Light Department
  • Westfield …Westfield Gas and Electric Light Department

2nd Congressional District

  • Boylston …Boylston Municipal Light Department
  • Paxton …Paxton Municipal Light Department
  • Shrewsbury …Shrewsbury’s Electric Light Plant
  • South Hadley …South Hadley Electric Light Department
  • Sterling …Sterling Municipal Light Department
  • Templeton …Templeton Municipal Lighting Plant
  • West Boylston …West Boylston Municipal Lighting Plant

3rd Congressional District

  • Ashburnham …Ashburnham Municipal Light Plant
  • Boxborough …Littleton Electric Light & Water Department
  • Concord …Concord Municipal Light Plant
  • Groton …Groton Electric Light Department
  • Hudson …Hudson Light and Power Department
  • Littleton …Littleton Electric Light & Water Department
  • Stow …Hudson Light and Power Department

4th Congressional District

  • Berkley …Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant
  • Dighton …Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant
  • Gosnold …Gosnold Electric Light Company
  • Lakeville …Middleboro Gas and Electric Department
  • Mansfield …Mansfield Municipal Electric Department
  • N. Attleborough …North Attleborough Electric Department
  • Raynham …Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant
  • Taunton …Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant
  • Wellesley …Wellesley Municipal Light Plant

5th Congressional District

  • Belmont …Belmont Municipal Light Department

Forty-one communities have established MLPs that serve all or part of 50 municipalities for electric service.

6th Congressional District

  • Danvers …Danvers Electric Division
  • Georgetown …Georgetown Municipal Light Department
  • Groveland …Groveland Municipal Light Department
  • Ipswich …Ipswich Municipal Light Department
  • Lynnfield …Reading Municipal Light Plan/Peabody Municipal Light Plant
  • Marblehead …Marblehead Municipal Light Department
  • Merrimac …Merrimac Municipal Light Department
  • Middleton …Middleton Municipal Light Department
  • North Reading …Reading Municipal Light Plant
  • Peabody …Peabody Municipal Light Plant
  • Reading …Reading Municipal Light Department
  • Rowley …Rowley Municipal Lighting Plant
  • Wilmington …Reading Municipal Light Plant

7th Congressional District

8th Congressional District

  • Braintree …Braintree Electric Light Department
  • Hingham …Hingham Municipal Light Plant
  • Hull …Hull Municipal Lighting Plant
  • Norwood …Norwood Municipal Light Department

9th Congressional District

  • Middleborough …Middleborough Gas & Electric Department
  • Gosnold …Gosnold Electric Light Company
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