The city has a new 27-month electricity supply contract through the Rochester Community Power program that will begin supplying participants this September.

Using our collective bargaining power as residents and small businesses to choose green energy sources that make the least impact on our bank accounts and the environment only makes sense.

Under the initiative, these 14 communities will first receive technical support to better assess their energy challenges, evaluate solutions, and find partners to support the community in meeting its energy goals.

The initiative aims to support underserved communities’ energy storage, increase resilience and maximize energy flexibility.

As electricity charges skyrocketed through the primary months of 2022, Joule estimates that its electricity supply chain helped clients save $7 million from July 2021 through February 2022.

Beyond the bill savings for participants, the program has helped to avoid more than 650,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions since July 2019.

New York’s largest community choice clean energy program has been activated in the City of Rochester.

Cities can use CCAs to take a group of residents and businesses and use their collective buying power to get bids for a fixed rate on a supply of energy. For Rochester, it's 100% green energy.

Joule Assets, as the program administrator, managed the competitive bidding process to secure a fixed rate for the next 24 months, protecting residents and businesses from volatile market prices.

CCA empowers municipalities to select their own power sources and helps move New York toward its goal of 70% clean energy by 2030.

The opt-out Rochester Community Power program will offer 57,000 residents and small businesses access to clean energy from hydropower and wind sources. The program requires customers to opt-out, instead of enrolling, to provide clean energy to the greatest number of people.

The Rochester Community Power program will offer residents and small businesses access to 100% clean electricity sourced from hydropower and wind power. It is estimated that the project will supply customers with more than 300 million kWh of renewable electricity each year and avoid nearly 225,000 metric tons of CO2 over the next two years.

Joule is currently the sole program administrator with approval from New York State to integrate community solar and electricity supply in a community choice offering.

In launching RCP, Rochester becomes the largest city in New York to establish a CCA.

The time is now for climate action. We want to make sure that move away from fossil fuels.

Listen in as we discuss what community choice aggregation is, what it means for customers, and the impact it could have on climate action.

People have had the choice in New York state to find their own ESCO for years, and only about 15% of people bothered to even look.

Now we need all the other municipalities in the area to follow Rochester’s lead.

Starting Sept. 1, city of Rochester residents will get their electricity entirely from renewable sources.

The goal is to reduce greenhouse gases and fossil fuel usage while still providing energy at competitive utility prices to customers.