BOSTON —

After months of taking heat from customers, state lawmakers and even the governor over skyrocketing energy bills in Massachusetts, the majority of the state board that oversees gas and electric companies is suddenly departing.

Two of the three Department of Public Utility commissioners are out, just as decisions must be made about this winter's heating rates. Latest Forecast

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The Healey Administration says these are not firings. The departures include the current DPU chair, James Van Nostrand, who still had two years left on his four-year term.

Van Nostrand has led DPU through a turbulent era since being appointed by Governor Maura Healey in 2023.

He will exit in October for a family move to Philadelphia. Cecile Fraser was

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