Portsmouth Community Power

Portsmouth Community Power logoCommunity Power – and greener electricity source options – serving Portsmouth!

Community Power, authorized by NH RSA 53-E, allows local governments to procure electric power on behalf of their residents, businesses, and municipal accounts. Community Power empowers towns, cities, and counties to choose their source of electric energy. This program allows residents to take advantage of this pooled supply, stay with Eversource or a 3rd party supplier. 

Join the Seacoast Green Energy Challenge!

Portsmouth has joined four other neighboring Community Power towns (Rye, Durham, Newmarket and Exeter) in a Seacoast Green Energy Challenge! Opt Up from the Basic Portsmouth Community Power rate (24.3% renewables) to Granite Plus (33% renewables) Clean 50 (50%) or Clean 100 (100%) to encourage Eversource to purchase a greater proportion of clean energy from renewable sources. The town with the greatest percentage of residents who Opt Up, wins! Join the Challenge between now and January 31, 2025.  Use the portal on the right hand side of the Portsmouth Community Power page or call the Community Power Coalition of NH (of which Portsmouth is a member) at 1-866-603-POWR to choose your Opt-Up power option. Please have your Eversource account number handy so they can easily process your selection.

Portsmouth Green Energy Challenge results as of Nov 30, 2024
Community Power Costs vs. Carbon Reduction

Community Power Options Help Reduce CO2

This graph compares the per month cost of electricity to Community Power customers choosing among the various "opt-up" renewables options to the reductions in CO2 these choices afford. The rates are for the current Community Power period of August 1, 2024 through January 31, 2025. For a slight increase in cost, Community Power customers make a substantial impact in helping reduce carbon emissions. And the Granite, Granite Plus and Clean 50 rates are still less than the Eversource default!

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Portsmouth is one of 52 communities in NH – 100,000 customers representing 30 percent of the state population – benefitting from lower prices, local control, consumer choice and more clean energy. Watch a short CPCNH video featuring member comments.

Community Power Coalition of NH details sources of renewable power also see NH Department of Energy Renewable Portfolio Standard.

As a Portsmouth resident, you should be receiving your electricity from Portsmouth Community Power.  

The Community Power Coalition of New Hampshire (CPCNH) also offers their customers the choice to opt-up to greater percentages of renewable power at competitive rates:

  • Granite Plus with 33 percent renewable;
  • Clean 50, with 50 percent renewable; or
  • Clean 100 with 100 percent renewable;
  • The default base rate for Portsmouth customers is 24.3 percent renewable content which is what the state’s Public Utilities Commission requires of Eversource.

Opting-up is easy. For more information about the Portsmouth Community Power program, visit the Community Power of New Hampshire website.

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