#mapoli

Busy day today so I’m just now posting something about what my @CityOfBoston colleagues and I have been working on for over two years: municipal aggregation. It’s likely you’ve already heard about the City’s Community Choice Electricity (CCE) program, but ...

... I did want to make sure you know why it’s unique. Sure, it’s big: the largest aggregation in NE; ~250k customers; ~1.75 TWh annually; ~40% of @EversourceMA’s NEMA load. It’s not the aggregation’s size though that makes it unique. No, it’s what the aggregation will do for ...

... its ~21k low-income customers. The City and NextGrid Inc. have partnered to capitalize on the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART ) program’s 6¢/kWh low-income adder to reduce the cost of electricity for low-income CCE customers. That reduced per kWh rate ...

...will save low-income customers ~$72/yr. and yield them $28M in aggregate savings over 20 years. We believe the CCE is the first U.S. aggregation to deliver power to low-income customers at a reduced rate. *That* is what makes the CCE truly unique. http://bit.ly/2VC5GU4 

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