CFREE Tip #1 Are you on the Correct Eversource Delivery Rate Plan? The rate is lower if your primary heat is electric.

CFREE Tip #1

 Are you on the correct Eversource delivery rate plan?  🤔 The rate per kWh for electricity delivery is lower if electricity is your primary source of energy for heating. 

Eversource has four residential delivery rate plans (which are different from the supplier rate plans such as Lincoln Green Energy Choice).  R1 and R2 delivery rates are for those residents who heat with fossil fuels. The less-expensive R3 and R4 are for those whose primary source of energy for heating is electricity.  You can still have your oil or gas heating system for backup and very cold periods and be considered to have primary electric heating if you have installed heat pumps.  R2 and R4 are the rate plans if you qualify to receive any discount from Eversource based upon income.

CFREE found in a small survey 🧐 that there are quite a number of Lincoln residents who are on the R1 rate but should be on the lower R3 rate. 🤨 If you qualify for either R3 or R4 but are now on R1 or R2, call the customer service number on your Eversource bill and ask them to correct your rate.😉

If you find you are on the wrong rate plan, you have a solar array AND participate in the SMART program, please read the following.

If you were already heating with electricity as your primary source when the solar array was

installed, you may qualify for an increase in your SMART incentive for the balance of the 10-

year qualifying period.  If this applies to you, one of our CFREE volunteers will help you 😃submit the needed information to the Department of Environmental Resources (DOER), the state agency that manages SMART.  

Please send an email to Scott Rodman, on behalf of CFREE, at slrodman@8500.org.

CFREE (Carbon Free Residential – Everything Electric) is a subcommittee of the Lincoln Green Energy Committee (GEC).  CFREE provides guidance on how households can reduce use of fossil fuels and decrease greenhouse gas emissions to help Massachusetts meet statewide emissions limits set for 2030, 2040, and 2050. It also provides information about state and federal incentives that help reduce the cost of such changes. 

For more information visit: lincolngreenenergy.org.

Collette Sizer

CFREE Facilitator