How aggregation works

Before aggregation

Before an aggregation launches, most customers have their utility’s Basic Service. This means your utility is supplying (buying) your electricity in addition to delivering it, and your utility uses their electricity supply price to calculate the Supply charge on your bill. You are placed on your utility’s Basic Service when you first open your account, and you can always go back to it.

Eversource’s and National Grid’s electricity supply prices change every 6 months or less.

With an aggregation in place

With an aggregation, the electricity supplier chosen by Sharon, which is currently Direct Energy and changing to First Point Power in January, supplies your electricity. But your utility continues to deliver your electricity without interruption. Your utility uses the price provided by the supplier to calculate the Supply charge on your bill instead of their Basic Service price. Sharon Power Choice prices under the First Point Power contract will be fixed until January 2030.

Your primary relationship for electricity remains with Eversource or National Grid:

• You continue to call Eversource or National Grid if you lose power.
• You will continue to receive one bill from Eversource or National Grid. This is the only electric bill you will receive as a participant in Sharon Power Choice.
• You continue to send bill payments to Eversource or National Grid.

If you are eligible for a low-income discount or fuel assistance, you continue to receive that benefit.

If you have Eversource’s Budget Billing or National Grid’s Budget Plan, it continues to apply to your total bill.

If you are participating in community solar, or you are receiving net metering credits or incentive payments for electricity produced by solar panels on your property, you will continue to receive your credits or incentive payments as a participant in Sharon Power Choice. Further, there will be no change in how they are calculated. Their calculation is not connected to your electricity supply price.