{"id":19557,"date":"2025-10-16T14:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=19557"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:34:52","slug":"new-eversource-electric-rate-for-homes-with-heat-pumps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2025\/10\/new-eversource-electric-rate-for-homes-with-heat-pumps\/","title":{"rendered":"New Eversource Electric Rate For Homes With Heat Pumps"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Do you have a heat pump installed in your home that you use for heating?\u00a0 If so, heating with a heat pump is about to get much cheaper.\u00a0 The Massachusetts Dept. of Public Utilities has ordered\u00a0Massachusetts electric utilities to create a new residential electric rate for homeowners with heat pumps. This includes homes that heat PARTIALLY<\/strong> or FULLY<\/strong> with a heat pump.\u00a0 This new rate will help incentivize the adoption of heat pumps in place of heating systems using fossil fuels in order to lower CO2 emissions, which are the main cause of climate change.<\/p>\n

Starting with the billing period covering November 2025, the \u201cDelivery\u201d portion of your electric bill will be reduced<\/em> <\/strong>by $0.07\/KWH.\u00a0 This is a savings of approximately 25% on your total electric bill (including the delivery and generation portions of your bill).\u00a0 This new rate will cover the months of November-April (winter period).\u00a0 The electric rate in the other months (summer period) will remain unchanged.\u00a0 What\u2019s important here is that the \u201cwinter\u201d rate will apply to your entire electric bill, not just the electricity used for heating.\u00a0 The new heat pump rate will make heat pumps competitive with natural gas to heat your home.\u00a0 For oil and propane users, the savings will be significant.\u00a0 A typical 2,500 sq. ft. home with heat pumps will save about $750 per year with this new rate, compared to oil heat.<\/p>\n

This change does NOT affect the \u201cgeneration\/supplier\u201d part of your electric bill.\u00a0 Whether you have elected to use one of Needham\u2019s new \u201cNeedham Power Choice\u201d rates or have remained with Eversource as your supplier, or you have a private electricity supply contract, those \u201cgeneration\u201d rates remain unchanged.\u00a0 This new heat pump rate applies only to the Delivery portion of your electric bill.<\/p>\n

Anyone who has purchased a heat pump through the Mass Save program since 2019 will be enrolled automatically for the lower rate.\u00a0 If your heat pump was not installed via the Mass Save program, you are still eligible, but you need to contact Eversource and request to be included under the new rate.\u00a0 Everyone should start reviewing your November electric bill (received in December) to make sure the change has been made to your account.\u00a0 If not, contact Eversource.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to view Mass Save’s FAQ page about the heat pump rate.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/a> to view information on Eversource’s website about their heat pump rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you have a heat pump installed in your home that you use for heating?\u00a0 If so, heating with a heat pump is about to get much cheaper.\u00a0 The Massachusetts Dept. of Public Utilities has ordered\u00a0Massachusetts electric utilities to create<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":17536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-19557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heating-and-cooling","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19561,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19557\/revisions\/19561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}