Product information below represents electricity product details for the renewal of the Brookline Green Electricity Program beginning December 2022 though December 2024. Click here to see Brookline Green Electricity Program pricing for the prior period, December 2019 through November 2022.
The Program has different products to let you find the right balance of cost and renewable electricity. Renewable electricity will be certified by purchasing and retiring Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), the accepted legal instrument used to track renewable energy generation and to substantiate claims of renewable energy use. Learn more about RECs.
Brookline Green
Price: 16.361 ¢/kWh for residential, commercial and industrial customers
Term: December 2022 – December 2024
Renewable Energy: Adds voluntary renewable energy (MA Class l RECs) to total: 90% renewable in 2022 & 2023 and 100% in 2024.
To see percentages of total renewable content and total MA Class l REC content, click here.
Price: 18.681 ¢/kWh for residential, commercial and industrial customers
Term: December 2022 – December 2024
Renewable Energy: Adds 100% voluntary renewable energy (MA Class I RECs).
To see percentages of total renewable content and total MA Class l REC content, click here.
Why do we have more than 100% RECs?
Tax Deduction: The value of the extra 100% MA Class I RECs qualifies as a deduction on federal income taxes. Those enrolled in this product will receive a tax contribution letter each January from Green Energy Consumers Alliance, the non-profit that procures the extra RECs.
Price: 14.781 ¢/kWh for residential, commercial and industrial customers
Term: January 2020 – December 2022
Renewable Energy: meets renewable energy requirements
Read about renewable energy requirements in Massachusetts.
Please note that prices for all products in the Brookline Green Electricity Program include a $0.001/kWh administration fee.
Products described as Green contain renewable electricity above that required by the Commonwealth. The additional renewable electricity qualifies for MA Class I designation and comes only from solar, wind, anaerobic digestion and low-impact hydro located within New England.
For those interested in learning more about tax deductions for the Program, please read the material on the Tax Deductions page. Print your tax receipt (for those customers enrolled in Brookline Green only). Brookline Green 65 (no longer available as of December 2022) and Brookline All Green participants will receive a tax letter in the mail.
Eversource Basic Service Rates
Residential: 25.776 ¢/kWh, January – June 2023
Commercial: 26.176 ¢/kWh, January – June 2023
Industrial: 13.318 ¢/kWh NEMA, April – June 2023
Renewable Energy: Meets minimum renewable energy standards
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.