Are You In BGE? Most residential and small business customers in the Town participate in BGE. You can check if you participate by looking at your Eversource bill. Click here to see how to check. Not participating? Use our online form, or call our supplier, NextEra Energy, at (877) 960-5514 to join!
BGE is Brookline’s ONLY Electricity Program! BGE is an official Town of Brookline program. There are many unaffiliated electricity suppliers knocking doors and calling to recruit. Beware! BGE will never knock on your door or call solicited.
Program Options
December 2022 to December 2024
Brookline Green Electricity (BGE) is a program offered by the Town of Brookline and is an important part of Brookline’s Climate Action Plan. Learn more about the program options, including how to switch your choice.
| Brookline Green | Brookline All Green | Brookline Basic | Eversource Basic Service Residential | |
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| Price | 16.361 ¢/kWh | 18.681 ¢/kWh | 14.781 ¢/kWh | 16.078 ¢/kWh |
| Voluntary Renewable Energy Content | Adds voluntary renewable energy (MA Class l RECs) to total: 90% renewable in 2022 & 2023 and 100% in 2024 | Adds 100% voluntary renewable energy (MA Class I RECs) | - | - |
| Duration | 24 Months: December 2022 to December 2024 | 24 Months: December 2022 to December 2024 | 24 Months: December 2022 to December 2024 |
6 Months: July - December 2023 |
Future savings compared to Eversource Basic Service cannot be guaranteed because future Basic Service prices change every six months for residential and commercial customers and every three months for industrial customers.
Sign up for Brookline All Green to receive 100% Local Renewable Energy!
Products described as Green contain Renewable Energy Certificates (MA Class I RECs) above that required by the Commonwealth, and come only from solar, wind, anaerobic digestion and low impact hydro located within New England.
BGE Program Performance
Future savings compared to Eversource Basic Service cannot be guaranteed because future Basic Service prices change every six months for residential and commercial customers and every three months for industrial customers.
Through BGE, Brookline annually purchases more than 42.2 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of voluntary renewable energy from New England. Those purchases are:
Enough to power 6,500 Brookline residential users exclusively with renewables
Equivalent to the output of approximately nine wind land-based turbines
What the Community is Saying
We have used green electricity for close to 10 years. It feels good to be doing one’s part to decrease dependency on fossil fuels. And the big surprise was that the extra cost of the additional renewable electricity we buy thorough the Program is tax deductible.
Carol Caro
Member, Advisory Committee
Participating in Brookline Green Electricity is the easiest, most effective thing we can do to keep fossil fuels in the ground. No other action we can take will result in carbon emission reductions of this magnitude. This is an essential step for our community to become part of a growing movement to a clean energy future.
Kathleen Scanlon
Architect; Coordinator, Mothers Out Front
Brookline has developed a program that is good for consumers and the environment, and it’s received the stamp of approval from the state Department of Public Utilities.
Werner Lohe
Zero Emissions Advisory Board
Questions & Support
Have questions or need help? Please visit the support page, which contains the contact information for the current program supplier and a form for comments.