How aggregation works
Salem PowerChoice is a municipal electricity aggregation, which is a kind of group electricity buying program for a city or town.
- Salem buys electricity from an electricity supplier that it chooses.
- You receive a new price for the electricity supply charge on your National Grid bill.
- National Grid remains Salem’s electric utility and continues to deliver your electricity, address power outages, and handle all billing as it does now.
Aggregation is possible because in Massachusetts we can choose our electricity supplier, which is the company that puts electricity on the grid for us.
But we have no choice in our electric delivery utility. If you live in Salem, National Grid is your electric delivery utility no matter what.
Municipal electricity aggregation was enabled by the Massachusetts Restructuring Act of 1997 (Chapter 164, Section 134) and is regulated by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities.