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Ksevio t1_ir3hta8 wrote

Reply to comment by Roff_Bob in PSA: if you're concerned about electric costs rising, see if your town is part of a municipal aggregation program by tzigane

Municipal power companies are even better than negotiating with National Grid. Used to have one and it had way better service at lower prices

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wittgensteins-boat t1_ir3o7qn wrote

Lower prices are in great part due to the Massachusetts Municipal Electric Wholesale Electric Company owning a significant portion of the Seabrook NH Nuclear Power Plant: 11.59%, on behalf of many municipal power and light companies in Massachusetts.

Reference:

SEABROOK STATION
Mass Municipal Electric Wholesale Electric Company
https://www.mmwec.org/our-energy-assets/seabrook-nuclear/

> MMWEC (11.59%) and two Massachusetts municipal utilities, the Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant (0.1%) and the Hudson Light & Power Department (0.08%).

> MMWEC’s Seabrook Project Participants include 28 Massachusetts municipal utilities based in the communities of Ashburnham, Boylston, Braintree, Danvers, Georgetown, Groton, Hingham, Holden, Holyoke, Hudson, Hull, Ipswich, Littleton, Mansfield, Marblehead, Middleborough, Middleton, North Attleborough, Paxton, Peabody, Reading, Shrewsbury, South Hadley, Sterling, Templeton, Wakefield, West Boylston and Westfield. The Pascoag (Rhode Island) Utility District also is an MMWEC Seabrook Project Participant.

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