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Project Overview
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 its 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.
Project 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
Total savings for aggregation members = $420,185
2013 Contract Renewal
Contract period—12 month contract, February 2013-January 2014
Total savings for aggregation members = $276,049
2014 Bid Process
Contract period—9 month contract, February 2013-November 2014
Total savings for aggregation members = $197,259
2015 Contract Renewal
Contract period—8 month contract, March 2015-November 2015
Total savings for aggregation members = $221,627
2016 Contract Renewal
Contract period—12 month contract, November 2015-October 2016
Total savings for aggregation members = $242,402
2017 Bid Process
Contract period—12 month contract, November 2016-October 2017
Total savings for aggregation members = $251,409
2018 Contract Renewal
Contract period—12 month contract, November 2017-October 2018
Total savings for aggregation members = $154,320
Total Aggregation Savings 2012-2021
$1,935,671
2012-2021 Savings Breakdown by Participant
- Amherst* = $107,434
- Brookline* = $46,034
- Hollis* = $74,470
- Hudson* = $557,354
- Litchfield* = $66,179
- Lyndeborough* = $15,677
- Mason* = $6,117
- Mason Schools* = $28,560
- Milford = $302,282
- Milford Schools = $280,156
- Mont Vernon* = $19,398
- Pelham* = $30,428
- Pelham/Windham Schools = $66,089
- SAU 41 = $77,144
- Wilton* = $36,944
- Wilton-Lyndeborough Schools = $49,702
- Windham Schools = $146,721* = 2020 member