The relaunch of the CCA program will continue to help us achieve sustainability and environmental goals by having a 100% renewable supply offered to the community at a lower rate

The City of Canandaigua has finalized a new 27-month electricity supply contract set to benefit residents and small businesses by ensuring a fixed rate and bolstering access to renewable energy.

Using our collective bargaining power as residents and small businesses to choose green energy sources that make the least impact on our bank accounts and the environment only makes sense

The city has a new 27-month electricity supply contract through the Rochester Community Power program that will begin supplying participants this September.

Starting in September, RG&E customers in Henrietta will have a new option for a power supplier, which could save money on electric bills.

Weinberg singled out the Hudson Valley as 'a leader regionally for the whole state' in modeling clean energy use, while 'New York State is really setting the pace for the country…. It’s a bottom-up approach. Local action is leading the way.'

The award recognizes communities and organizations that are actively accelerating the clean energy transition through actions such as CCA.

New Paltz residents will again have hassle-free access to a source of renewable energy for their home electricity this summer.

With all hurdles overcome, Southampton Town is poised to become the first municipality on Long Island to implement a community choice aggregation program, a model that replaces the utility as the default sole supplier of electricity or natural gas and gives municipalities the opportunity to seek lower prices from alternative suppliers.

The town believes CCA has the greatest potential to bring renewable energy into the community in a relatively short period of time without the disruptive infrastructure improvements that might otherwise need to take place

The town is pleased to be able to provide these options to NYSEG’s ever-changing rate. We have three fixed rates to choose from, or the choice to opt-out entirely and stay with NYSEG. Last year we were consistently below NYSEG’s rate and supported the growth of renewable energy production to boot

electricity supply rates will be fixed in place, immune to the price swings

The town of Marbletown has secured a new electricity contract through Hudson Valley Community Power to provide renewable electricity

more than 35,000 households and businesses will begin receiving electricity on July 1 under a two-year contract that runs to June 30, 2025, with three rate options: renewable energy generated exclusively in New York state; renewable energy sourced 50 percent in-state and the rest out-of-state; and standard mixed fossil-fuel electricity.

The benefit is that they’re able to access electricity supply at really competitive rates - usually renewable and with extra protective contracts.

It is an opportunity for residents and small businesses to congregate together," said Potsdam town board member Allyssa Hardiman, "often with other municipalities around the state, to opt for a better price for clean and renewable energy.

By sourcing all renewable energy, we'll both save money for residents, or we won't do it) and lessen the burning of fossil fuels, thereby lowering our carbon footprint, minimizing climate impacts

offers residents and small businesses more attractive electricity supply terms through the bargaining power of aggregation

The company will procure electricity from renewable sources at a fixed rate through a bid process on the town’s behalf.

Above all, it will enhance our reputation as an environmentally responsible community, which will be a source of pride to its residents

The goal is to begin receiving power from a renewable source in August, Proemm remarked.

We’re doing it because each municipality is looking for ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the impact of climate change

In plain language, it would allow the village to essentially join a buying co-op that could, potentially, provide lower prices while ensuring that the power residents used was produced from renewable sources.

By sourcing all renewable energy, we'll both save money for residents, or we won't do it) and lessen the burning of fossil fuels, thereby lowering our carbon footprint, minimizing climate impacts

Most communities that go with a CCA, she said, opt for a green-energy supplier helping to make the transition to renewable energy sources.

A CCA can allow whole communities to participate in the clean energy economy by ensuring that a greater percentage of electricity is coming from renewable sources. CCA has the potential to simultaneously deliver fixed-rate electricity prices and cleaner energy for your constituents.

In Lewis County, the Planning Department had been looking into developing an aggregation program since 2019 as part of the Climate Smart Community program, but when it became clear only towns and villages could participate in CCA efforts, it engaged Joule to do informational sessions with municipalities around the county.

It has to be cost neutral or cost saving, and then it’s going to be as green as possible so we can get the best of both worlds.

The Village would participate in a bid process for a CCA electricity supply rate. If the rates are favorable and the program benefits Village residents, an electricity supplier would be selected.

By including community solar as a default energy offering rather than an opt-in basis, the town can make the benefits of community solar available to the entire community while removing enrollment hurdles.

Many Clarkstown residents and others in Rockland County have been protected against the recent volatility in energy markets that have been driven by geopolitical realities and other factors beyond our control.

Under the initiative, these 14 communities will first receive technical support to better assess their energy challenges, evaluate solutions, and find partners to support the community in meeting its energy goals.

The initiative aims to support underserved communities’ energy storage, increase resilience and maximize energy flexibility.

In Rockland County, Joule’s clean energy program individuals saved more than $2 million through January 2022 because of the Programs’ launch.

Joule now offers larger institutions a way to decrease their electricity costs, help reduce NY State carbon emissions, support local renewable energy generation, and participate in their surrounding community's clean energy movement.

As electricity rates skyrocketed through the first two months of 2022, Joule estimates that its electricity supply customers saved $7 million from July 2021 through February 2022.

Beyond the bill savings for participants, the program has helped to avoid more than 650,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions since July 2019.

Residents from across the Hudson Valley are also recognizing the power in numbers. Many towns, like Beacon, NY are now participating in Community Choice Aggregation (CCA).

Aside from it being non-fossil fuel, it can be very stabilizing financially to know what you’re opted into.

With the governor’s signature on legislation addressing many of the complexities not addressed in the initial Public Service Commission order, Southampton can now proceed toward development of C.C.A.

Southampton Town has been at the forefront of this effort, and was the first town on Long Island to adopt legislation to create a local CCA program.

Community power programs...give municipalities more say over where its energy supply comes and have become a common tool in the fight against climate change.

CCAs are the most participatory mechanism of green power purchase in the United States.

Starting early next year, neighbors In Marbletown, Beacon and Phillipstown may notice the benefits of energy from the sun and solar panel arrays. The company estimates residents could see up to a 10% drop in utility bills.

Joule Community Power is dedicated to “empowering local decision-making, enabling access to cleaner and cheaper energy and making it easier for New Yorkers to transition to renewable electricity.

Joule Assets, as program administrator for the Rochester program, managed the competitive bidding process that secured a fixed rate for electricity for the next two years, shielding participating residences and businesses from volatile market prices.

Hudson Valley Community Power will be the first opt-out community solar program that explicitly prioritizes LMI residents for solar benefits,

The contract with Luminace for the provision of approximately 24,600 MWh in the first year of operation represents the nation’s largest solar generation supply agreement dedicated to community choice solar to-date.

These opt-out programs see roughly 90% participation from eligible households as opposed to only 2-3% for traditional opt-in programs and can further accelerate the transition to green energy and help the state accomplish its goals.

Part of Hudson Valley Community Power.....community choice solar offerings will be available to more than 4,500 households and small businesses, approximately 35 to 50% of which are expected to be low- to moderate-income (LMI) residences.

CCAs with a CDG component can do more than lower people’s bills. They can support local green jobs. They can foster knowledge and a sense of community investment in local energy systems. And they could even help towns create local islands of grid resilience.

Community Choice Aggregation is one of, if not the most powerful tools in the State’s arsenal to achieve clean energy and climate protection goals.

Cities can use CCAs to take a group of residents and businesses and use their collective buying power to get bids for a fixed rate on a supply of energy. For Rochester, it's 100% green energy.

The Community choice aggregation has saved [Town of Clarkstown] residents nearly half a million dollars in electricity costs.

Joule Assets, as the program administrator, managed the competitive bidding process to secure a fixed rate for the next 24 months, protecting residents and businesses from volatile market prices.

CCA empowers municipalities to select their own power sources and helps move New York toward its goal of 70% clean energy by 2030.

The opt-out Rochester Community Power program will offer 57,000 residents and small businesses access to clean energy from hydropower and wind sources. The program requires customers to opt-out, instead of enrolling, to provide clean energy to the greatest number of people.

The Rochester Community Power program will offer residents and small businesses access to 100% clean electricity sourced from hydropower and wind power. It is estimated that the project will supply customers with more than 300 million kWh of renewable electricity each year and avoid nearly 225,000 metric tons of CO2 over the next two years.

With the addition of community choice solar to Rochester Community Power, the city will be New York's new benchmark as other municipalities also look to leverage their buying power and provide their residents and businesses access to guaranteed electricity bill savings.

Joule is currently the sole program administrator with approval from New York State to integrate community solar and electricity supply in a community choice offering.

This [opt-out] structure enables municipal leaders to expand access to community solar benefits to all their constituents, including the low- to moderate-income residents who have historically been unable to benefit from traditional opt-in community solar or community choice electric supply programs due to state regulation and socioeconomic barriers.

Together, the opt-out community choice solar and electric supply programs will provide residents with an estimated 48 million kWh of renewable energy, avoiding 34,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide each year.

All eligible residents are automatically enrolled in the program without having to sign a contract, undergo a credit screen or have solar panels installed on their homes.

The municipality signs up the entire population, leveraging the collective buying power at a scale large enough to secure better terms through a single competitive bidding process with solar providers.

We finally have a program that will benefit our residents with guaranteed savings and help New York reach its clean energy goals.

Municipal leaders [can] expand access to community solar benefits to all their constituents, including the low- to moderate-income residents who have historically been unable to benefit from traditional opt-in community solar or community choice electric supply programs due to state regulation and socioeconomic barriers.

Our residents will be able to reap both financial and environmental benefits without having to take any action makes our efforts worthwhile.

In launching RCP, Rochester becomes the largest city in New York to establish a CCA.

New York has failed to achieve equitable participation from low-income communities, and opt-out programs have been floated as one way to reverse that trend.

To date, five municipalities in three utility service territories already have been approved by the Department of Public Service to offer opt-out community solar, including two launching now.

I’m proud that our Town Board showed continued environmental leadership by selecting the renewable energy option, which between 2017 and 2019 helped our community avoid nearly 15,000 tons of carbon emissions — equivalent to taking 3,200 cars off the road for a year.

The time is now for climate action. We want to make sure that move away from fossil fuels.

Listen in as we discuss what community choice aggregation is, what it means for customers, and the impact it could have on climate action.

People have had the choice in New York state to find their own ESCO for years, and only about 15% of people bothered to even look.

Now we need all the other municipalities in the area to follow Rochester’s lead.

Starting Sept. 1, city of Rochester residents will get their electricity entirely from renewable sources.

Over the first 18 months of the current contract, town participants receiving 100% renewable electricity contributed to stopping 5,800 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions, the equivalent amount of carbon sequestered by approximately 8,000 acres of forest.

By creating a virtual commercial entity out of all of these small customers within a community, you reverse their leverage within the marketplace and just using the existing market. You can actually have your cake and eat it, too. You can support renewables at a very cost-competitive rate that’s fixed, and it can be better than the price of non-renewables. It’s totally turned around the way that people think about renewables just by utilizing existing capitalistic markets.

The climate crisis and our communities' economic need cannot wait. We deserve access to the same benefits that others in the state are getting.

he joint effect of the two programs sponsored by the Town makes it easy to support renewable energy.

Nine communities, including Beacon, Philipstown and Cold Spring, renewed their contracts with Hudson Valley Community Power to provide residents and businesses with renewable energy at a fixed rate.

Supporters of the Hudson Valley Community Power program contend there was a 37% savings in electricity production costs during the past year.

Customers have saved an average of $5 per month on their electricity costs and that greenhouse gas emission are being reduced because the power is purchased from hydroelectric facilities.

Why should we have to pay their [LIPA's] local supply costs? We can go out and get local supply ourselves.

Re-localizing energy generation helps build local wealth.

The community solar program powers entire communities with renewable power and passes along guaranteed bill savings.

Using renewable energy dramatically reduces greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming and other environmental problems.

We should go ahead and adopt an enabling local law so we can at least get the process started and at least get the information out to our residents.

Municipalities implement CCA to reduce and stabilize the rate that customers pay on their electric bill and make progress toward their own and the state’s sustainability goals associated with clean energy.

Southampton has been leading the charge for the past three years to allow East End municipalities to demand their electricity comes from renewable sources, and has had some success in 2020.

The Town of Brighton transitioned to using renewable energy on January 1. It's the first to do so in Monroe County.

CCA programs empower municipalities to select 100% renewable electricity for the community at a fixed rate and a lower price than individual customers have historically paid.

Irondequoit and Pittsford residents can cut down electric bills with new community solar program.

The goal is to reduce greenhouse gases and fossil fuel usage while still providing energy at competitive utility prices to customers.

There's a new initiative kicking off between six municipalities in Rockland, pooling power for lower prices and 100% renewable energy.

Six Rockland County municipalities have joined forces in an endeavor to provide small businesses and residences with cost-efficient, locally-sourced renewable energy.

More residents of NY are getting access community solar power and community choice aggregation as six Rockland County municipalities offer residents and small businesses cheaper clean, renewable energy.

It is important that Long Island residents are no longer left behind. CCA authority has been enabled for the rest of the state since 2016. It is important that Long Island municipalities are able to source the electricity power supply for residents and small businesses, to access clean energy markets, and to protect consumers with fixed electricity rates without cancellation fees.

The elegance of the program is that residents don’t have to take any action to benefit and the solar credits will appear automatically on their regular National Grid bill each month.

This is the first community solar program in the US that will automatically put solar credits on a ratepayer’s bill, to the tune of a guaranteed 10% discount. To ice the cake, all of the paperwork goes to the utility National Grid. Individual ratepayers do not need to sign a contract, pay a separate bill, or deal with any other administrative tasks.

This community solar program meets the Village of Lima’s long sought goal of providing residents with 100% renewable electricity at a 10% cost saving.

The approval of opt-out community solar by DPS enables communities, rather than individual consumers, to directly support the development of renewable energy generation in New York and opens the door to a more inclusive model of community participation.

Philipstown’s program is being funded in part money the town raised through participation in the Hudson Valley Community Power Program

For the first time in the U.S., community solar will be offered on an opt-out basis to the communities of Brockport and Lima, NY, in partnership with Joule Community Power.

You can help build a solar planet from your living room.

East Hampton can take a large step toward deriving its energy needs from renewable sources by joining 61 other municipalities in New York State with an active community choice aggregation program.

Hudson Valley Community Power donated $9000 to two Marbletown organizations to reward them for all the residents who signed up for community solar.

In this model of giving back, the action of hundreds of individual subscribers allows all local community members, businesses, and residents to benefit from this design of renewable energy project.

The City of Canandaigua has been a leader with respect to the utilization of alternative energy sources and CCA will give us the opportunity to continue to lead by providing our entire community with renewable energy at a lower cost than they are paying now.

We are proud to be able to adjust our offering to better serve communities in these challenging times by supporting local relief efforts providing critical services.

Community solar now an easier option in New Paltz

LIPA vote means Southampton is closer to cheaper electric rates

While all of Long Island benefits from the LIPA board of trustees’ vote, C.C.A. is a tool essential to Southampton in order to meet its stated goal of 100-percent renewable electric energy by 2025.

We believe the CCA program will be able to provide [renewable-generated electricity] for less than what PSEG Long Island is charging. Even a one-cent reduction in the cost of energy for ratepayers would save Southampton residents a combined $7 million a year.

Long Island Power Authority Director of Communications Sid Nathan said “LIPA will recommend our board of trustees vote to approve Community Choice Aggregation at our meeting on Wednesday and welcomes the opportunity for community leaders to make energy choices they believe are appropriate for their constituents.”

CCA aggregates the purchasing power of all the town’s residents and small businesses, so lower electric rates can be negotiated. The savings can enable the entire community to switch to 100% clean and renewable electricity for less than what residents pay now.

LIPA is expected to vote on adopting a framework for CCA at its 5/20 board meeting. Six investor-owned utilities in NY State adopted a CCA tariff in 2016. LIPA, which is not regulated by the state’s Public Service Commission, did not.

Long Islanders need to understand that we need to fight for what ratepayers outside the LIPA region already have, and that is choice.

A CCA program would replace LIPA as the default power supply provider.

CCA is the most impactful action communities can take to reduce their carbon footprints.

Some misconceptions about CCA have emerged in the public conversation on how the program works and the choices consumers have available to them:

Joule Community Power has rolled out community choice aggregation programs to more than 25,000 households in seven communities in New York State.

Joule Community Power establishes solar-driven CCA programs across New York.

A move toward carbon-free electricity is growing in Rochester area.

Calling all Philipstown residents: you can now opt in to the Hudson Valley Community Power, a community solar program that saves an additional 10% on energy bills.

The proposed local law authorizes the town, resting on their home-rule authority, to implement a bulk buying power program should they choose.

The community choice aggregation model replaces the utility as the default, monopolistic supplier of electricity or natural gas and gives municipalities the opportunity to seek lower prices from alternative suppliers.

The towns of Irondequoit, Pittsford and Brighton, as well as the village of Pittsford, have all selected Joule Assets to serve as program administrator for Community Choice Aggregation.

Can East Hampton Town benefit from using a CCA program to purchase green energy on behalf of residents and businesses?

Moving ahead with a CCA program is just the next step in Pittsford’s long tradition of taking action to protect our environment and benefit our residents. The opportunity to offer electricity from renewable sources at lower cost is a win for everyone in Brighton.; The Town of Irondequoit is excited to be taking the next steps to determine if we can provide lower cost, renewable energy for our community.

I would very much like Irondequoit to join the so many other communities across New York in taking a good look at this program and determine if CCA is right for us.

Municipalities will likely be able to provide price stability for its residents, solicit bids from power and gas companies, and stipulate how much energy comes from wind farms, solar panels or any other renewable source.

CCA fits with the larger goal of trying to reduce carbon emissions, trying to wean us off fossil fuels as soon as possible. It’s critical to the planet, but also to our local goals.

This is a step in the right direction to preserve this beautiful place we call home for future generations.

The success of the Geneva Community Power launch demonstrates that a model that empowers communities works.

This is a win-win-win opportunity for residents--they get a price that's less than what they paid over the last year, they're protected against a volatile market with fixed rates for the next two years, and they're buying electricity generated from only renewable power sources.

New collaborations with our neighboring communities is a win for the entire region.

You’re protected from bad contracts, it’s low-cost, it’s green energy. It’s a win-win-win.

We brought those communities together and we went out to bid on behalf of all those communities as group ... to capitalize on the size of the aggregation.

It’s a shift in authority.

NYSEG customers in communities around Seneca Lake are encouraged to sign up for Geneva Community Power now.

We're trying to do what we think to be the right thing and it's not costing anybody anything

Climate change is a global issue which has serious local implications, too. It threatens our infrastructure, our health, and our natural resources. Fortunately, there are things we can do in our community that can make a difference

400 subscribers must be enrolled in Geneva Community Power’s community solar program by June 26 to meet application deadlines for New York state matching funds intended to fund storm water control projects benefiting Seneca Lake.

The program will lower electric rates while sourcing 100% of the energy from renewable sources--a win for everyone who participates and a win for the environment.

The town of Geneva will undertake a storm water control project to benefit Seneca Lake if 400 people enroll in Geneva Community Power...The program is not just for Geneva residents.

Subscribers can expect to save about 10% on electricity annually for up to 25 years, Geneva will be able to sponsor a potentially $100,000 watershed project to benefit Seneca Lake, and we can reduce our carbon footprint by supporting renewable energy generation.

CCA makes a lot of sense in terms of cost savings and utilization of environmentally-conscious sources of supply...and hopefully, there will be savings for the community and the residents.

Instead of getting a gift-card as a promotional deal from competing solar farm sales companies, those who join Joule Community Power will make a direct investment into the community, a meaningful stake of ownership with foreseeable future impacts.

Geneva Community Power will supply local clean energy, save those who enroll approximately 10% on electricity for up to 25 years, and generate $25,000 that will be directed toward at least one of four sustainable initiatives that will benefit the area.

Despite being a small town in New York, Marbletown has adopted a 100% renewable energy future plan that is also aimed at being profitable.

Several communities have banded together for two aims. First, to achieve lower-cost power. And second, to gain more control over its source.

Marbletown is on a path to a prosperous, clean energy future.

The Town of Geneva is offering area residents a way to save money on their electricity bills, reduce our carbon footprint, earn the town $25,000 for sustainability initiatives, and have input into how that money is spent.

Not only will subscribers be awarded solar credits, but their overall energy costs will decrease by as much as 10%. 400 subscribers will also fund a local sustainability project.

You will be doing a good thing.

...benefit from solar energy by spending less on electricity.

You’re not just helping yourself, you’re bringing your neighbors with you.

I believe in Community Choice Aggregation programs as a major device that cities can employ to curtail the impacts of climate change and as a vital tool in energy conservation and procurement because they facilitate cost savings, price stability, they help to precipitate local renewable energy development, they stimulate community choice and the implementation of community-wide clean energy initiatives, all while encouraging investment in our local economy and the potential to create jobs in innovative industries.

We know that if we don't take action to battle climate change, the natural resources that we cherish will be at great risk. Yet still some deny that climate change is real. If Washington won't act, we will.

The contract flips on its head the way that energy consumers get into deals with suppliers.

It's a great opportunity to reduce energy costs and shift to cleaner renewable sources of power.

CCA is a key step in the “think global, act local” movement and the next frontier seems inevitable: locally sourced energy.

Community choice aggregations, microgrids, and community solar together create a triple threat. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

We expect community choice aggregations will make microgrids a heck of a lot more cost effective

New York is one of the first states to create such sweeping regulation, which lets consumers, businesses and communities gain control over their energy supply.