The Town has selected, on a competitive basis, ConEdison Solutions as its competitive power supplier for the Town’s electricity customers.  This new “Community Choice Power Supply” initiative is a program for electric power supply that will help lower electricity costs for Ashland consumers.  Ashland now becomes the fourth locale in Massachusetts to select a competitive supplier for residential and small business customers.  You will shortly receive more information on this program. The program will be operated by Colonial Power out of Marlborough.

With the authorization of the Board of Selectmen, the Community Choice Power Supply initiative allows the Town to provide local energy services in a way that stabilizes costs, promotes competition and ensures local control over energy supplies.  The Community Choice Power Supply initiative provides Town residents and businesses with energy price stability, and also offers opportunities for potential cost savings.  The program creates competition among energy suppliers to help ensure competitive rates and to endow the Town with local control over energy supplies.  Acting on behalf of the Town’s 7,000 electricity ratepayers, the Town of Ashland selected ConEdison Solutions on a competitive basis because of the provider’s ability to stabilize rates, its capacity to maximize savings opportunities, and its strong record of performance as an energy supplier in the Northeast.

All eligible consumers of NSTAR “basic service” are automatically enrolled in the Community Choice Power Supply program.  Ratepayers may “opt out” of the program by choosing another competitive power supplier or by choosing to default back to “basic service” supplies provided by NSTAR.  Those choosing to “opt out” must do so within 30 days from the date that the Town mails an “opt out” postcard and a Consumer Notification Form to ratepayers.