Board of Aldermen 09-09-2020 Page 13
So right now the project status is that we are currently in a process of creating a draft aggregation plan
which is the first step to creating this program. | have a draft aggregation plan for the Nashua Aggregation
Committee to review when we start meeting. | have requested a lot of data from Eversource including the
number of energy accounts in Nashua and we found that we have 48,860 accounts and we use about
404,000 mega watts hours every year. So we are quite the user as the City. We have been attending
regular data meetings with the Public Utility Commission to work on rule making for this program so that we
can work with our utilities and get the data and information that we need to move these programs forward
as kind of what is a big step in this because we need a set of rules to be created in order for us to work with
our utilities and start our community aggregation. So that’s kind of one the big things that we’ve been
working on an kind of lobbying for as a City.
One program that we were considering doing is joining a back office with a collaboration of other
communities in New Hampshire. This will allow us to kind of share the cost of upkeep of this program. So
when you create a Community Power Program, you have to have customer service, somebody has to be
purchasing supply and maintaining all of these accounts. Like | said earlier in this presentation, we have
about 48,000 accounts so it is going to be very difficult for one Energy Manager to do by herself. So joining
this back office will help us have the staff and be able to free up the time to be able to maintain this
program. And in the future, we would like to reinvest and bring renewable energy together because when
you put all of our money together as communities, our dollar is stronger together.
The communities in this program include Nashua, Lebanon, Hanover and Cheshire County. We are
currently actually in the process of working with legal representation that’s being funded by Lebanon and
Hanover to incorporate this group and it will be a non-for-profit called Community Power New Hampshire
and for short it would be CPNH. So that’s kind of like the programming that we are trying to form to start
this effort as a community. My computer froze for a second. Actually, this might be a good time to pause
for questions. | Know | am very much talking quickly.
President Wilshire
Does anyone have any questions? Alderman Cleaver.
Alderman Cleaver
| would just like to say thank you to Ms. Brown, nice to meet you very much and also | would like to be a
member of the Committee, | volunteer to do that.
Ms. Brown
Thank you, awesome.
Alderwoman Lu
Just a couple of simple questions. A back office is just another name (audio cuts out).
Ms. Brown
| apologize, but | can’t hear you.
President Wilshire
Alderman Lu, we can’t hear you.
Alderwoman Lu
Ok.
