Nashua Region Electricity Supply Aggregation
The goal of the Nashua Region Electricity Supply Aggregation is to purchase electricity as a group from a competitive supplier at a lower rate than each member could receive on its own. By purchasing as an aggregation, municipalities and school districts can offer electricity suppliers a larger demand than if they each tried to purchase electricity individually. The larger demand, in turn, allows suppliers to offer a better rate to the aggregation than it could to individual members.
The Nashua Regional Planning Commission serves as an aggregator to facilitate a bid process among competitive electricity suppliers licensed with the NH Public Utilities Commission. Each aggregation member signs their own contract with the supplier for a fixed electricity supply rate. Rates and contracts are identical for each member within a given electric distribution territory.
History
In 2011, NRPC utilized funding from the Energy Technical Assistance and Planning (ETAP) program to work with 9 towns and 6 school districts to form an aggregation to procure electricity from a competitive supplier. Since that time, the aggregation has completed the following contract rounds:
2012 Bid Process
Contract period - 12-month contract, February 2012-January 2013
- Approximate savings for aggregation members = $420,185 (27% savings vs utility)
Contract period - 12-month contract, February 2013-January 2014
- Approximate savings for aggregation members = $276,049 (21% savings vs utility)
Contract period - 9-month contract, February 2013-November 2014
- Approximate savings for aggregation members = $197,259 (23% savings vs utility)
Contract period - 8-month contract, March 2015-November 2015
- Approximate savings for aggregation members = $221,627 (28% savings vs utility)
Contract period - 12-month contract, November 2015-October 2016
- Approximate savings for aggregation members = $242,402 (21% savings vs utility)
Contract period - 12-month contract, November 2016-October 2017
- Approximate savings for aggregation members = $251,409 (40% savings vs utility)
Contract period - 12-month contract, November 2017-October 2018
- Approximate savings for aggregation members = $154,320 (27% savings vs utility)
Contract period - 36-month contract, November 2018-October 2021
- Approximate savings for aggregation members = $165,399 (28% savings vs utility)
Contract period - 8-month contract, March 2022-November 2022
- Approximate savings for aggregation members = $206,996 (32% savings vs utility)
Contract period - 12-month contract, December 2022-November 2023
- Approximate savings for aggregation members = $TBD
Contract period - TBD
- Approximate savings for aggregation members = $TBD
Total Aggregation Savings 2012-2022 = $2,135,646
2012-2022 Savings by Participant
Amherst = $131,596
Brookline = $55,699
Hollis = $88,179
Hudson = $668,501
Litchfield = $81,939
Lyndeborough = $17,356
Mason = $8,499
Mason Schools = $34,799
Milford = $302,282
Milford Schools = $280,156
Mont Vernon = $23,503
Pelham = $55,751
Pelham/Windham Schools = $65,307
SAU 41 = $77,144
Wilton = $45,714
Wilton-Lyndeborough Schools = $49,702
Windham Schools = $146,721
For more information, please contact Emma Rearick, Environmental Planner III.