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davis_squareI attended the city's Commission on Energy Use and Climate Change (CEUCC) meeting this evening. One of the issues discussed was this proposal to have the city adopt a Community Choice Aggregation Program for. From the web site:
It sounded like a reasonable proposal, which has been adopted in other communities, as a way to help access more green power, among other benefits. We are still having other initiatives like Solarize Somerville (which is still underway and will roll out later in the spring), but that won't be suitable for everyone's situation. So this might be an option some folks would like to investigate.
They hope that people will read this and ask any questions they might have. http://www.somervillema.gov/sustainaville/cca
(By the way, if this is an issue that interests you and you have skills in their topic areas, the city will also have a couple of openings on this commission soon. Look for announcements.)
The objective of municipal aggregation is to lower electricity bills through the formation of a buying group composed of the residents and businesses without interfering with the level of service provided by the existing utility (Eversource in Somerville), which will continue to distribute the electricity supply. In addition to lowering and stabilizing electricity prices, aggregation can be used to increase the amount of renewable energy in the community’s energy supply.
It sounded like a reasonable proposal, which has been adopted in other communities, as a way to help access more green power, among other benefits. We are still having other initiatives like Solarize Somerville (which is still underway and will roll out later in the spring), but that won't be suitable for everyone's situation. So this might be an option some folks would like to investigate.
They hope that people will read this and ask any questions they might have. http://www.somervillema.gov/sustainaville/cca
(By the way, if this is an issue that interests you and you have skills in their topic areas, the city will also have a couple of openings on this commission soon. Look for announcements.)
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Date: 2016-04-21 01:24 pm (UTC)How this impacts my solar situation is something I need to ask as well. I pay a small monthly service fee, and I have to split the production with a housemate's account. It's not clear to me how that works in our case either.
They really, really want people to ask questions over there---apparently it will help them with the community outreach piece of this. Or/and, consider the public Q&A:
April 28, 2016, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Somerville Central Library
79 Highland Avenue