Last October the Town of Burlington launched its Community Choice Power Supply Program to provide an energy program that is stable, affordable and incorporates additional renewable energy.
Municipal aggregation customers recently found themselves looking at an unexpected increase in their electric bill. The Town of Burlington Financial Analyst, Samuel Hockenbury, went before the Select Board to further explain the municipal aggregation program after receiving multiple calls from residents questioning their bill hikes. He broke down what the Eversource billing is, what aggregation is covering and what drove the actual change in people’s billing.
Electric bills charge for both supply and delivery. The town’s aggregation program only affects the supply rate. Eversource continues to set the delivery rate, which is what drove the recent change in pricing.
The town’s supply program saves money relative to not having the program, but does not to mean your final bill will be lower than some billing periods. Eversource’s delivery charges are out of the town’s control and are set by Eversource regardless of the municipal aggregation program.
The town will get its first quarterly report in early April which will provide information on how many aggregation users there are and how many kilowatts the town uses. Once the information is examined the town will be able to tell how much Burlington residents on the aggregation program are saving.
See Financial Analyst Samuel Hockenbury’s presentation in its entirety here.
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