Gloucester Mayor Greg Verga and Gloucester Planning Director Gregg Cadamartori
GLOUCESTER — Gloucester residents and businesses enrolled in Gloucester Community Electricity Aggregation (Gloucester CEA) will not be impacted by the rate hike recently announced by National Grid. Gloucester, which is under contract with electricity supplier Constellation, offers electricity program rates that are fixed and will not change through December 2024. The vast majority of Gloucester households participate in the Gloucester CEA program.
As widely reported, National Grid announced that as of November 1, 2022, the default Residential Basic Service Fixed supply rate will be $0.33891/kWh, which is significantly higher than the standard Gloucester supply rate of $0.11071 cents/kWh. National Grid’s rates change twice a year for Residential and Small Business customers on May 1 and November 1, but Gloucester CEA rates are fixed for the duration of the municipality’s contract, which expires in December 2024.
“Gloucester’s Community Electricity Aggregation program will be a major relief for so many Gloucester residents with the hike in electricity rates,” said Mayor Greg Verga. “It is such a challenging time with rising costs and as we prepare for the cold months, I encourage all residents to see if they are eligible to enroll.”
Gloucester residents and businesses can confirm that they are enrolled in Gloucester Community Electricity Aggregation by looking at the Supply Services Section of a recent National Grid electric bill. If it says “Supplier: Gloucester CEA – Constellation NewEnergy”, then that account is enrolled. If it says something else such as Basic Service Fixed or names a supplier other than Constellation then that account is not enrolled.
Gloucester Community Electricity Aggregation offers contract rate options:
Gloucester Local Green — $0.11071/kWh
Gloucester 100% Local Green — $0.14356/kWh
Gloucester Basic — $0.10706/kWh
Availability to Customers Seeking to Join the Program:
The contract rates above are available to any Residential and Small Business customer that has never participated in the program.
The following customers may be offered a market rate, determined by the supplier:
Residential and Small Businesses customers that have previously opted-out of the program and are seeking to re-join
Any Large Business customers
Residents and businesses can enroll in Gloucester Community Electricity Aggregation or switch rate options at any time online at Gloucester-CEA.com or by calling (866) 456-8232. It can take one or two billing cycles for the supplier change to appear on the National Grid bill.
Please note that because National Grid Basic Service rates are not known past April 2023 for Residential and Small Business customers or October 2022 for Large Business customers, future savings for the Gloucester Community Electricity Aggregation cannot be guaranteed.
For more information, see Gloucester-CEA.com.
