Freetown Community Electricity Aggregation Program Extended / New Rates Taking Effect

Town Seal (in the Winter!)

The Selectmen's Office has received numerous calls regarding a mailing that went out to residents currently enrolled in the Community Electricity Aggregation Program (if you did not receive a mailing, you are not currently enrolled in the program). While this mailing did NOT come from the Town, it is not a scam.

Freetown is part of a buying group of 23 communities stretching from the South Coast to northern Middlesex County that originally launched their Community Electricity Aggregation (CEA) programs in January 2016. By purchasing together, these communities have collectively saved over an expected $22 million for their residents through June 2023 and have now renewed their supply contracts for another two year term, running through November 2025.

The new default program rate is 15.784 per kilowatt hour (kWh) from December 2023 through November 2025 (by comparison, the current Eversource rate for basic service for residential customers is 16.078 per (kWh). Eversource's rates change every six months for residential and commercial accounts, so savings cannot be guaranteed, but the CEA program sets a steady, predictable rate for the life of the contract.

Those who do not want to participate in Freetown CEA can opt out without penalty or change to a different program option at any time on the program website masscea.com/Freetown or by calling the supplier Constellation at 833-461-0813.

For more information about the program, please visit freetownma.gov/CEA, or visit masscea.com/Freetown.