Cambridge Community Electricity is a group electricity purchasing program from the City of Cambridge for residents and businesses. Since launch, the program has provided participants with more than $95 million in savings compared with Eversource’s prices, though future savings cannot be guaranteed.
Program savings history: Savings history for an average residential customer. (PDF)
Cambridge Community Electricity offers three options for the electricity supply price on your Eversource bill. As a new participant, you will be automatically enrolled in Standard Green. Two other options are available by request. Make the choice that’s right for you!
Learn more about program options and prices. Need help deciding? Contact customer support.
Cambridge Community Electricity offers long-term prices, while Eversource’s prices change seasonally. Use the price calculator to compare Cambridge Community Electricity prices with Eversource’s prices.
Through Cambridge Community Electricity, the City has selected Direct Energy as our electricity supplier (the company that puts electricity on the grid for us) and locked in long-term pricing for the electricity supply charge on our bills. But Eversource remains Cambridge’s electric utility and continues to handle our billing, address power outages, and deliver our electricity with no interruption.
If you did not sign a private electricity supply contract, you have Eversource’s Basic Service. New accounts on Basic Service (except those with a customer-initiated block) are eligible for automatic enrollment. The automatic enrollment process happens on a roughly quarterly basis throughout the year. All similar programs throughout the state use an automatic enrollment model, but you are free to opt out before being automatically enrolled. You will receive a notification in the mail from the City in advance. See the most recent notice of automatic enrollment.
If you signed a private electricity supply contract, your account will not be eligible for automatic enrollment, but you can request enrollment online or by contacting customer support with our program consultants. (Restrictions apply for large business 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.
If you are enrolled, Cambridge Community Electricity will be integrated into your existing Eversource electric bill. Your supplier will appear as Cambridge Comm Elec Direct Energy. But you will not see any additional charges on your bill or receive any additional electric bills because of participating in the program.
Maybe! All program options are currently lower than Eversource’s electricity supply prices, and the program has provided savings historically (download the savings history for an average residential customer). But Cambridge cannot guarantee that program prices will always be lower than Eversource because Eversource’s prices change seasonally, and we do not know their future prices.
Eversource will never knock on your door or call you to talk about your electric bill.
Only provide your Eversource account number if you are ready to change your electricity supplier.
