In 2019, the town of Wareham launched its Community Electricity Aggregation (CEA) program designed to provide residents and businesses with competitive choice and long-term price stability. Now, the program has been renewed for another 35 months (almost 3 years!) and provides even more options with additional renewable electricity than the minimum required by state law.
Below is a chart comparing the current rates for the Wareham Community Electricity Aggregation program to Eversource’s Basic Service rates for residential customers.
Wareham Community Choice Electricity rates
| Wareham default rate | Wareham 100% Local Green | |
| cost | $0.10430/kWh | $0.13280/kWh |
| Renewable electricity | meets state standards | 100% in addition to state renewable electricity standards |
Eversource Basic Service rates
Residential: $0.11882/kWh (January – June 2021)
Commercial: $0.11173/kWh (January – June 2021)
Industrial: $0.10749/kWh SEMA (January – March 2021)
Wareham CEA rates starting in January 2021
The Wareham CEA program has been renewed as part of a 25-community purchasing group, effective January 2021 and going through December 2023.
| Rates valid: January 2021 – December 2023 | Wareham default rate | Wareham 50% Local Green | Wareham 100% Local Green |
| cost | $0.10470/kWh | $0.12244/kWh | $0.14019/kWh |
| Renewable electricity | Meets state standards | 100% in addition to state renewable electricity standards | 100% in addition to state renewable electricity standards |
Disclaimer: A goal of the CEA program is to produce savings for customers, but savings cannot be guaranteed compared to the utility’s basic service rate which change every six months for residential and small commercial customers, and every three months for large commercial customers. The aggregation program seeks to provide price stability and average savings over the full term of the program, but because future basic service rates are not known, there is no guarantee of savings.
