The power of our community

Hanover Energy Choice is a group electricity buying program for Hanover residents and businesses. Using the purchasing power of our community, the program provides:

  • Three new electricity supply choices
  • 30 months of stable electricity supply prices
  • Savings compared with National Grid at launch

The program will launch in May 2025. More than 200 other Massachusetts communities have similar programs.

Read the official announcement from the Town of Hanover.

Ask questions and get answers at a public information session:

April 7, 2025, 6:30 PM – Hanover Town Hall, Select Board Meeting Room, 550 Hanover Street – As part of a regularly scheduled Select Board meeting.

April 16, 2025, 1:00 PM-ish – Council on Aging, 665 Center Street – Immediately following a budget presentation that begins at noon.

Program benefits

 

Three consumer-friendly options

Hanover Energy Choice offers three options for the electricity supply price on your National Grid bill. As a new participant, you will be automatically enrolled in Hanover Standard, which is the lowest-priced option in the program. Or you can make another choice. Hanover Greener provides an additional 20% of your electricity from renewable sources. Hanover Greenest provides all of your electricity from renewable sources. Make the choice that is right for you!

Learn more about program options and prices. Need help deciding? Contact customer support.

Hanover Energy Choice offers long-term prices, while National Grid’s prices change seasonally. Use the price calculator to compare Hanover Energy Choice prices with National Grid’s most recent 12-month average prices.

No interruption in service 

Through Hanover Energy Choice, the Town has selected Gridwealth Electric as our electricity supplier (the company that puts electricity on the grid for us) and locked in long-term pricing for the electricity supply price on our bills. But National Grid remains Hanover’s electric utility and continues to handle our billing, address power outages, and deliver our electricity with no interruption.

Learn how Hanover Energy Choice works.

 

National Grid remains responsible for…

Delivering your electricity
National Grid continues to deliver your electricity with no interruption (and they are 100% OK with your participation in Hanover Energy Choice).
Sending your electric bill
Your electric bill continues to come from National Grid, and this is the only electric bill you receive as a participant in Hanover Energy Choice.
Accepting your electric bill payment
You continue to pay National Grid using whatever existing arrangement you have.
Addressing power outages
Call National Grid if your power goes out, as you do now.
Providing a low-income discount or fuel assistance
If you are eligible for these benefits, you continue to receive them with no change.
Providing bill credits or incentive payments from solar panels
You continue to receive your credits or payments, and participating in Hanover Energy Choice does not impact their calculation.
Applying bill credits from community solar to your bill
You continue to receive bill credits, and participating in Hanover Energy Choice does not change their calculation.
Applying the Budget Plan to your bill
If you have National Grid's Budget Plan, it continues to apply to your total bill.

Most accounts are eligible for automatic enrollment

Have National Grid’s Basic Service? 

If you did not sign a private electricity supply contract, you have National Grid’s Basic Service. All accounts on Basic Service (except those with a customer-initiated block) will be eligible for automatic enrollment in May. You will receive a notification in the mail from the Town in advance. All similar programs throughout the state use an automatic enrollment model, but you are free to opt out before being automatically enrolled. See the notice of automatic enrollment.

 

Have a private electricity supply contract?

If you signed a private electricity supply contract, your account will not be eligible for automatic enrollment in May, but you can request enrollment online or by contacting customer support with our program consultants. (Restrictions apply for industrial accounts.) We recommend that you carefully check the terms and conditions of your supplier agreement. Your ability to terminate your agreement with your supplier may be restricted. Learn more about participating.

Make sure you’re enrolled

If you are enrolled, Hanover Energy Choice will be integrated into your existing National Grid electric bill.

Your supplier will appear as Gridwealth – Hanover Energy Choice.

You will not see any additional charges on your bill or receive any additional electric bills because of participating in the program. 

See an example bill

Will you save money?

Maybe! All Hanover Energy Choice prices are currently lower than National Grid’s residential price, and the Hanover Standard option price is lower than National Grid’s commercial price. But Hanover cannot guarantee that program prices will always be lower than National Grid because National Grid’s prices change seasonally, and we do not know their future prices. 

Learn more

How it works
Participating
FAQ
Program notifications & documents
Price calculator
Renewable energy

Protect your National Grid account number

National Grid will never knock on your door or call you to talk about your electric bill.
Only provide your National Grid account number if you are ready to change your electricity supplier.