Community Power Aggregations (CPAs) democratize energy governance and enable communities to choose where their electricity comes from

CPNH harmonizes wholesale electricity procurement and retail customer engagement

Wholesale electricity procurement: purchasing bulk quantities of electricity from different sellers (e.g., ISO New England markets, energy suppliers, generators). A portfolio of energy resources and contracts is actively managed for risk using hedging strategies to protect Community Power Aggregations (CPAs) from market swings.

On behalf of CPAs, CPNH will be responsible for:
  1. Forecasting retail electricity demand, market prices, weather, risk
  2. Contract origination: negotiating and executing power purchase agreements
  3. Credit and contract management
  4. Wholesale market operations and trading
  5. Settlements and back office
Community Power Aggregations (CPAs) engage retail customers, residents and businesses by:
  1. Notifying community members of program launch and providing opportunity to opt-out
  2. Populating websites and utilizing other communication mediums
  3. Providing customer service
  4. Offering smart electricity metering and rate design options, including time-based pricing for electricity
  5. Orchestrating deployment of distributed energy resources to intelligently shape community load profiles and reduce costly peaks (e.g., programmable thermostats, smart electric water heaters, electric vehicle charing infrastructure, air-source heat pumps, energy storage, distributed generation, and demand response)
New Hampshire cities, towns, counties, and other partners are working together to form CPNH, a locally governed public power entity to provide wholesale electricity procurement services on behalf of individual Community Power Aggregations (CPAs).

CPNH will support individual CPAs to launch and retain control over electricity rates, portfolio content (e.g., percent renewables), and surplus revenues. CPAs may also choose to implement various retail customer engagement strategies.

Roadmap for CPNH & Community Power Launch