{"id":267,"date":"2014-09-23T20:51:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T20:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/providerpower.com\/mass\/?p=267"},"modified":"2014-12-09T21:00:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T21:00:59","slug":"nat-grid-electricity-rates-to-soar-save-with-provider-power-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/providerpower.com\/mass\/2014\/09\/23\/nat-grid-electricity-rates-to-soar-save-with-provider-power-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Nat Grid Electricity Rates to Soar-Save with Provider Power Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.energychoicematters.com\/stories\/20140918b.html\" target=\"_blank\">Energy Choice Matters<\/a>, a highly respected website committed to providing timely and in-depth coverage of the competitive retail electric (and natural gas markets), is reporting that National Grid (in Massachusetts) has asked for a new fixed basic service charge of 16.182 \u00a2\/kWh. \u00a0This new rate for residential customers would run November 2014 through April 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;National Grid&#8217;s new rate in Massachusetts is not a surprise, we fully expect the other utilities to follow suit. When utilities have to change their rates going into the winter heating season, consumers really feel the pinch,&#8221; said Emile Clavet, co-owner of ProviderPower Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Media outlets, the utilities themselves, and regulators have had the warning signs up for quite sometime. \u00a0 Another cold winter, requiring a high demand of natural gas (a key ingredient in electricity production) has been the subject of several media reports across New England, which include:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/business-news\/index.ssf\/2014\/04\/us_energy_secretary_new_england_energy_i.html\" target=\"_blank\">MassLive<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhbr.com\/May-2-2014\/Energy-market-volatility-a-sign-of-things-to-come\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Hampshire Business Review<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/2014\/03\/18\/insufficient_pipelines_boosting_price_of_natural_gas__grid_operator_says\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Portland Press Herald<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/providerpowermass.com\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-359 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/providerpower.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ppm-sq.gif\" alt=\"ppm-sq\" width=\"264\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a>As the other utilities in Massachusetts (NSTAR, Unitil, WMECO) set their winter pricing, they will be facing the same market uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Consumers have said they want longer term options, they understand there is security with knowing what they will pay for electricity,&#8221; said Clavet. \u00a0 We only offer fixed rates, no variable rate surprises, and Massachusetts consumers can select from 12 or 24 month plans with ProviderPower Mass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Provider Power Mass, part of the Provider Power family of companies (with ENH Power and Electricity Maine) only offers competitive- fixed rates (no variable rate surprises). \u00a0 Provider Power Mass is currently offering the following rates for residential National Grid customers:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>12.8 \u00a2\/kWh (12 months) and 12.5 c\/kWh for (24 months).<\/p>\n<p>To receive this great savings, have your power bill handy and visit <a href=\"http:\/\/providerpowermass.com\" target=\"_blank\">providerpowermass.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Grid rates are set to soar.  Consumers can save with Provider Power mass-rates are fixed (no variable rate surprises) and competitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p556Rx-4j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/providerpower.com\/mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/providerpower.com\/mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/providerpower.com\/mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providerpower.com\/mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providerpower.com\/mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/providerpower.com\/mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/providerpower.com\/mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providerpower.com\/mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/providerpower.com\/mass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}