The Town of Marion received the following from our Community Electricity Consultant, Good Energy:

Beginning November 2025, most electricity customers with heat pumps will receive a discount through Eversource’s heat pump delivery rate. This is a new delivery rate designed to help offset cost increases due to increased electricity use in winter by heat pumps compared to fossil fuel heating.

Most importantly:

• Most customers with heat pumps will be automatically enrolled in this delivery rate
• This new delivery rate works seamlessly with Marion's aggregation program’s supply rate

This new rate will lower the delivery portion of electric bills for qualifying customers and does not impact aggregation supply rates. In fact, combining aggregation with this new delivery rate offers even greater savings. 

Here are the details:

• This new rate will have a lower delivery cost than the standard base distribution rates and won’t cause bills to increase for customers who don’t use heat pumps.
  • The delivery cost will be reduced in the winter period, which is November 1 through April 30 each year
  • According to the DPU, households enrolled in the seasonal heat pump rate could save around $540 over the winter.

• There is no conflict with this new delivery rate and your aggregation program’s supply prices. The two are complementary to help customers control costs.
• Customers who received a Mass Save® rebate through their Eversource electric account for a heat pump installed after January 1, 2019 will be automatically enrolled in the Heat Pump Rate starting November 1, 2025, with notifications sent beforehand.
• Customers using electric resistance heating (baseboards, space heaters, or furnaces) do not qualify.

Those who did not receive a rebate or installed a heat pump before January 1, 2019 may apply when enrollment opens November 1, 2025.  A link to upload your documentation will be available on this Eversource’s heat pump rate page  beginning on November 1. For additional information on heat pumps, check out this helpful FAQ from Mass Save.