Board of Aldermen 09-09-2020 Page 12
Ms. Lovering
You have 13 yeas and 0 nays, | did not hear Alderman Laws, President Wilshire.
President Wilshire
Yeah, | don’t see that he’s on.
Ms. Lovering
13 years and O nays.
Alderman Klee
Madam President, Alderman Laws was having some problems before, | don’t know if he is still having some
that’s why he had gone to just shutting off his camera hoping that would help. So he’s probably
disconnected again.
President Wilshire
So that was 13 to 0, that motion carries.
From: Doria Brown, Energy Manager
Re: Update on the City’s Community Power Efforts
Doria Brown, Energy Manager
Hi, | am Doria Brown and | am so happy to be here and to see all of your faces for the first time in a really
long time so hi, how are you. | wanted to do a brief update on where | am with Community Power. | am on
a little bit of a cell phone / computer kind of situation to be able to be on camera with you guys so | don’t
think I'll be able to present the presentation. But | sent it over earlier, is that ok?
President Wilshire
That's fine.
Ms. Brown
Ok so | am doing a quick update on Community Power, | have a little outline on what | want to talk about
today in the presentation so | am going to talk about the status of the Community Power efforts. The idea
of joining with the collective communities who want to share a back office for a community powered
program and request that a member of the Board of Aldermen joins our Aggregation Committee so that we
can complete that group and start having regular meetings.
So first | wanted to do a brief background on what is Community Power, because | know that we might not
have heard about it in a little bit. So Community Power will allow the City to purchase electricity supply
from third party suppliers and on the wholesale market on behalf of its residents instead of Eversource
purchasing that power. The utility, which is Eversource, will still maintain control of the delivery portion of
the bill. So they will maintain the lines and sending that power to everybody’s home. Through aggregation
the City will be able to charge less per kilowatt hour than the utility while also potentially collecting one tenth
a percent brokerage fee from the third party supplier. That money will hopefully be able to be reinvested in
energy programs for the community and help us further our way to 100% renewable energy goal by 2050.
So this will really help us reinvest back in to our community and kind of own our own renewable energy
resources.
