City Opens Public Review Period for Revised Electricity Aggregation Plan

The City of New Bedford is holding a 30-day public review period for its revised aggregation plan for New Bedford Community Electricity Aggregation (CEA).

New Bedford CEA is the City’s official electricity supply program, active since 2016. The revised plan will not impact New Bedford CEA’s current electricity supply options and prices, which are fixed until November 2025 through our supply contract with Constellation.

No action is required by existing participants to continue receiving the current pricing.

The aggregation plan describes how the electricity program is structured and operated. New Bedford secured approval for our original aggregation plan from the Department of Public Utilities in 2015. In July 2024, the DPU issued new rules for aggregation plans, called “Guidelines for Municipal Aggregators.” These Guidelines expand local authority for cities and towns concerning the operation of their programs and increase public transparency about program operations. The revisions to our aggregation plan ensure that the plan aligns with the new Guidelines. The program website, MassCEA.com/NewBedford, has both the revised plan and the current plan, a short video describing the revised plan and the DPU Guidelines.

To submit comments, the program website has a comment form to provide written comments, or comments can be emailed to support_ma@goodenergy.com with the subject line “New Bedford Plan Comments.”

Good Energy is the consultant that developed and manages the program on a day-to-day basis. The public review period is open until March 2, 2025.

*Published Feb. 4, 2025