To the Editor:
The Town of Marion voted at last spring’s Town Meeting to join 23 other towns in the Community Electricity Aggregation Program coordinated by Good Energy. As a result, all private Eversource electric customers in Marion have the opportunity to participate in this program offering savings on their electrical bills and protection from volatile energy prices while continuing to receive a single bill from Eversource. All of us who are paying the “Basic Service Fixed” generation charge from Eversource are automatically enrolled in the aggregation program. Those of you who opted sometime in the past to buy Supplier Services from another supplier (such as NRG or Dominion) are not eligible unless you call Con Ed Solutions at 855-788-9885 and tell them you want to be enrolled in the Good Energy program when it starts in January. Look at the very end of the last page of your Eversource bill to see who is your electricity supplier. If it does not say “Basic Service Fixed” and you want to join the aggregation program, you will need to call Con Ed Solutions before January. To enroll, be sure to terminate your present supplier who may charge you a termination penalty.
The Good Energy Community Electricity Aggregation program will provide the least expensive way for most folks to buy electricity. The program will not stand in your way if you wish to install a solar array on your house.
Marion’s Energy Management Committee recommends the aggregation program because it simply uses the power of bulk purchasing to benefit all of us. Additional information about the program is available at http://marionma.gov/Pages/elecaggfaq.pdf.
Bill Saltonstall
Member of Energy Management Committee
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