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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.
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.
As electricity charges skyrocketed through the primary months of 2022, Joule estimates that its electricity supply chain helped clients save $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.
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.
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.
Brockport & Lima will have the nation’s first opt-out community solar program, with a sustainability fund
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.
he joint effect of the two programs sponsored by the Town makes it easy to support renewable energy.
Re-localizing energy generation helps build local wealth
The community solar program powers entire communities with renewable power and passes along guaranteed bill savings.
More than 3,000 local households will be part of a brand new community solar program — the first of its kind in the country.
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.
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.
Joule Community Power establishes solar-driven CCA programs across New York.
We're trying to do what we think to be the right thing and it's not costing anybody anything.
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.
NYSEG customers in communities around Seneca Lake are encouraged to sign up for Geneva Community Power now.
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 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.
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.
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.