The Greenfield Light & Power Program is a municipal electricity aggregation, which is a form of group electricity purchasing.

Typically, your electric utility, Eversource, provides two services to you:

1. They deliver your electricity (Massachusetts electric utilities are electricity delivery companies only). Delivery services appear on your electric bill as Delivery charges.
2. They also supply your electricity, which means they buy electricity for you and pass the cost along to you. The cost of the electricity they buy for you appears on your electricity bill as Supply charges.

But in Massachusetts, there are actually three ways to purchase your electricity:

• Your utility can do it for you, as just described. This is called Basic Service, and this is how you buy your electricity when you first open your account.
• You can sign a contract with an electricity supplier yourself. You may have received offers in the mail or over the phone.
• Your municipal government can sign a contract with an electricity supplier on your behalf. This third option is municipal electricity aggregation, and this is what the Greenfield Light & Power Program is.

If you participate in the Greenfield Light & Power Program, Eversource delivers your electricity, but First Point Power will appear on your Eversource bill as your electricity supplier. Eversource will use a Greenfield Light & Power Program price to calculate the Supply charges on your Eversource electric bill instead their own Basic Service price.

The Greenfield Light & Power Program provides an alternative both to Eversource’s Basic Service pricing and to other electricity supply offers in the marketplace.

You benefit in four ways:

• Predictability: Greenfield’s contract with First Point Power offers fixed rates through January 2026.
• Choice: The program provides three alternatives to Eversource’s Basic Service and to other electricity supply offers in the marketplace.
• Renewable energy, cost effectively: Your electricity is powered by 100% renewable energy.
• Transparency: The program is a City-vetted option with no hidden fees. You may opt out at any time with no penalty. All program terms are public. Electricity prices are fixed by contract, known in advance, and posted.

No. If you receive a personal call or visit about your electricity, that person does not represent Eversource, the City of Greenfield, or the Greenfield Light & Power Program. Neither Eversource nor the City will knock on your door or make individual sales phone calls. Any communication is done by mail and will bear the City Seal or Eversource logo.

If you receive a call or a visit from someone who wants to discuss your electricity, here are three things to keep in mind:

• The person you are speaking with is not associated with Eversource, the City of Greenfield, or the Greenfield Light & Power Program.
• You should treat your electricity account number like you treat your credit card information. Do not give it out unless you want to purchase your electricity from someone else.
• You do have the right to select an electricity supplier of your choice. If you choose to explore this option, please check the terms of the agreement carefully. Things to check for include, but are not limited to: minimum bill amounts, contract length requirements, early termination fees, low introductory rates that change after the introductory period ends, and rates that vary.

If you feel a salesperson has fraudulently identified themself as working for Eversource or the City of Greenfield, please report it to the Department of Public Utilities Consumer Division 617-737-2836, or DPUConsumer.Complaints@mass.gov.

As long as Greenfield decides it is providing value.

The City’s contract with First Point Power runs through January 2026 meter reads. When that contract ends, Greenfield can either sign a new electricity supply contract and extend the program, or end the program. While the City’s intention is to continue the program, if the City decides to end the program, the City will make an announcement, and all active participants will be seamlessly transitioned to Eversource’s Basic Service.

Call Eversource, as always. Eversource will continue to deliver your electricity and maintain the poles and wires.

The City’s electricity supplier is required to have tax-exemption documentation on file for every electricity account that participates in the Greenfield Light & Power Program and has tax-exempt status. Without that documentation on file, the electricity supplier may be required to charge tax on the account. The electricity supplier cannot obtain that documentation from Eversource. They must obtain it from each customer directly.

If your account has tax-exempt status, please submit your tax-exemption documentation to First Point Power. Visit the Tax-exempt accounts page for information on where to send your documentation.

No. Nearly half of the cities and towns in Massachusetts have electricity aggregation programs like the Greenfield Light & Power Program.

No. If you are an active program participant, your account will be automatically enrolled into the new electricity supply contract, and you will be enrolled in your current program option.

If you previously opted out of the program, you will remain opted out. You do not need to opt out again. However, if you would like to enroll in the program with the new contract, you may do so. Please contact customer support for more information.

Electricity service has two parts: supply and delivery. Supply refers to the electricity itself. Delivery is the process of bringing that electricity to you over the wires.

With Basic Service, your electric utility, Eversource, is your electricity supplier and also delivers the electricity to you.

With the Greenfield Light & Power Program, Eversource will continue to deliver your electricity, but Greenfield chooses its own supplier.

A competitive electricity supplier is not your electric utility. Electricity suppliers do not deliver your electricity. They buy it for you, and your electric utility delivers it.

A competitive electricity supplier is a company licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities to purchase electricity and related services from the wholesale electricity markets for resale to retail electricity customers.

If you sign a private contract with an electricity supplier or you participate in a municipal program like the Greenfield Light & Power Program, Eversource will use your electricity supplier’s price to calculate the Supply charges on your electric bill instead of their own Basic Service price.

First Point Power is the City’s electricity supplier from January 2024 through January 2026.

Your price will be determined by which program option you are enrolled in. The Greenfield Light & Power Program has three options. Get current program prices.

The program has the potential to offer lower prices than Eversource’s Basic Service prices, but savings cannot be predicted or guaranteed.

The program prices are fixed until January 2026, while Eversource’s fixed Basic Service prices change seasonally.

Eversource’s future prices are not known. As a result, program prices may not always be below Eversource’s prices, and savings cannot be guaranteed.

No. Eversource will continue to bill you for your electricity. This is the only electric bill you will receive as a participant in the Greenfield Light & Power Program. The program is integrated into your existing electric bill.

This is normal. Eversource’s Basic Service prices change seasonally, while program prices are typically fixed for a longer period of time. As a result, it is likely that for some months, Eversource’s Basic Service prices will fall below the program prices. Typically, this happens during the summer months, but it could happen anytime.

Program participation is often best viewed as a longer-term effort. However, if you ever wish to leave the program, you are free to opt out and return to Eversource’s Basic Service with no penalty or fee.

Yes. You will continue to receive solar credits and/or solar incentive payments, and participating in the Greenfield Light & Power Program will not change how they are calculated.

The Greenfield Light & Power Program appears on your electric bill in two ways:

1. On the Supply charge portion of your electric bill, you will see Greenfield’s electricity supplier listed as your electricity supplier instead of Eversource’s Basic Service.
2. The price that Eversource uses to calculate your Supply charge will be the Greenfield Light & Power Program price instead of their own Basic Service price.

Additionally, the amount of renewable energy purchased on your behalf may change, depending on which program option you choose.

View an example Eversource bill for details regarding how Greenfield Light & Power appears on your bill.

The Greenfield Light & Power Program prices are fixed until January 2026. Having a stable price for the Supply portion of your electric bill can protect you from the seasonal price increases that occur when you have Eversource’s Basic Service. When Eversource is your electricity supplier and you have their Basic Service, the price they use to calculate the Supply charges on your bill changes seasonally.

Having a stable price can also provide a predictable alternative to the variable prices offered by some commercial electricity supply offers. Some commercial electricity supply offers will provide a stable price for a few months, but then the price will vary monthly.

Check your most recent electric bill. If you are enrolled in the Greenfield Light & Power Program, your electricity supplier will be listed as First Point Power.

To check which program option you are enrolled in, look at the price that is used to calculate the Supply charge on your bill. Compare it to the Greenfield Light & Power Program prices. Remember that your bill presents your supply price in dollars per kWh, while most other resources will provide your program price in cents per kWh.

All metered electricity customers within the geographic boundaries of Greenfield are eligible to participate. All new Eversource Basic Service customers in Greenfield will be eligible for automatic enrollment within a few months of opening their electricity account. Before being automatically enrolled, you will receive a notice in the mail from the City with information about the program, including how to opt out if you do not wish to participate.

Important note: For any customer who previously opted out of, or left, the program and wishes to re-enroll, the program’s electricity supplier is entitled to charge a market price instead of the program price for the remainder of the current electricity supply contract. If the program’s electricity supplier decides to charge market pricing, you will be notified before enrollment and can decide then whether to continue with enrollment or not.

Yes. If you have already signed a contract with an electricity supplier, you will not be eligible for automatic enrollment in the program, but you are invited to participate.

We recommend that you first check the terms of your existing electricity supply contract. Many include minimum enrollment periods and early termination fees.

Learn more about enrolling.

Important note: For any customer who previously opted out of, or left, the program and wishes to re-enroll, the program’s electricity supplier is entitled to charge a market price instead of the program price for the remainder of the current electricity supply contract. If the program’s electricity supplier decides to charge market pricing, you will be notified before enrollment and can decide then whether to continue with enrollment or not.

You may choose not to participate, and you may leave the program after you join. This is called opting out.

There is no penalty for opting out. You may do so at any time.

If you opt out, you will be placed on Eversource’s Basic Service.

You may opt out at any time online or by contacting customer support.

You may use the online form to change from one program option to another or contact customer support. You may change program options at any time.

If you open a new Eversource electricity account in Greenfield, you do not need to do anything to participate in the Greenfield Light & Power Program. All Eversource Basic Service customers will be eligible for automatic enrollment in the program within a few months of opening their account. Before being automatically enrolled, you will receive a notice in the mail from the City with information about the program, including how to opt out if you do not wish to participate.

If you have an existing electricity supply contract and wish to enroll in the program, you may enroll online or by contacting customer support with Greenfield’s program consultants. Before enrolling, we recommend that you check your supplier agreement carefully for minimum contract length or early termination penalties.

Important note: For any customer who previously opted out of, or left, the program and wishes to re-enroll, the program’s electricity supplier is entitled to charge a market price instead of the program price for the remainder of the current electricity supply contract. If the program’s electricity supplier decides to charge market pricing, you will be notified before enrollment and can decide then whether to continue with enrollment or not.

Yes, however, for any customer who previously opted out of, or left, the program and wishes to re-enroll, the program’s electricity supplier is entitled to charge a market price instead of the program price for the remainder of the current electricity supply contract. If the program’s electricity supplier decides to charge market pricing, you will be notified before enrollment and can decide then whether to continue with enrollment or not.

Large commercial accounts may be eligible for higher market pricing instead of program pricing when they request initial enrollment in the program. If you are interested in submitting an enrollment request for your large commercial account, please contact customer support.

Yes. You will lose budget billing on the Supply portion of your bill as a participant in the Greenfield Light & Power Program, but budget billing will continue on the Delivery portion.

No. You will continue to receive your low-income discount or fuel assistance as a participant in the Greenfield Light & Power Program.

An electric utility like Eversource is responsible primarily for delivering electricity to you, for maintaining the poles and wires, and for addressing power outages. Your utility charges you for these services on the Delivery portion of your electric bill.

An electricity supplier is a company that buys electricity for you from electricity generators or from electricity brokers. An electricity supplier can be a utility like Eversource, or it can be a third-party company. If your supplier is a third-party company, it does not replace Eversource as your electric utility.

• When your utility is also your electricity supplier (i.e., when you have Eversource’s Basic Service), your electric bill will indicate that is the case with the words “basic service.”
• You may also choose your own electricity supplier. If you do, the name of that company will appear on your electric bill as your electricity supplier, and the price you negotiated with them will be used to calculate the Supply charges on your bill.
• In the Greenfield Light & Power Program, the City chooses an electricity supplier on your behalf. Greenfield has a contract with First Point Power to supply electricity from January 2024 – January 2026. Eversource will use a Greenfield Light & Power Program price from the relevant contract to calculate the Supply charges on your bill.

No. The quality of service to you will be unaffected by your participation in the Greenfield Light & Power Program. The reason is because Eversource does not profit from the Supply charges on your electric bill. They pass the electricity Supply charges along to you with no markup. They make their profit from the Delivery charges. As a result, they have no preference whether they choose your supplier or Greenfield does.

The minimum amount increases every year. For 2024, Massachusetts state law requires that renewable electricity must be purchased from new renewable energy projects in the New England region to match 24% of your electricity use.

In addition, state law requires the purchase of a minimum amount of renewable energy from older renewable energy projects in New England, as well as from some other energy sources that are considered highly efficient but not renewable.

For more information, visit the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources page on compliance information for the Renewable Portfolio Standard.

When you choose the Local Green option, 100% of your electricity will be generated by renewable energy resources (like the sun and the wind) in the New England region.

Generating electricity from renewable energy resources like the sun and the wind does not create air pollution, and it does not emit the gases that cause climate change.

Purchasing all of your electricity from renewable energy projects in the New England region creates a stronger market for locally produced renewable electricity and helps to drive the development of new renewable energy projects in our region. It also supports the local jobs that go with those projects.