Quincy Community Electricity (QCE)

Quincy Community Electricity

Quincy Community Electricity is a program in development by the City to provide residents and businesses more electricity supply options and more renewable energy. The program is a City-vetted alternative to the utility default supply and other third party electricity suppliers.

Customers eligible for automatic enrollment in Quincy Community Electricity will be mailed this notification letter in early April 2024. If you receive the letter, you are slated to be enrolled in Quincy Standard (13.804¢/kWh) as of the June meter read. No action is necessary to receive this price. If you are enrolled, you may always leave the program at any time, without penalty.

The City of Quincy will hold a public informational meeting on Quincy’s new Community Electricity Program. Interested in attending? Here are the details:

Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 6:00 pm: Kennedy Center, 440 E Squantum St Quincy, MA 02171. You can watch the recording and presentation with an overview of the proposed program here. You can view the slide deck directly here.

Quincy Asian Resources Inc. (QARI) will also do a Chinese language meeting on Wednesday, May 8th, 2024, at 6:00 PM: 275 Hancock St, Suite 202, Quincy, MA 02171, USA. You can watch the recording and presentation with an overview of the proposed program here. You can view the slide deck directly here.

Participants in the program will automatically receive Quincy Standard, the community default, unless they chose one of the other optional products. To choose a different product click here.


Quincy Standard
(community default)

Quincy Basic

Quincy Premium

National Grid Basic Service Residential

Eversource Basic Service Residential
13.804 ¢/kWh 13.394 ¢/kWh 14.737¢/kWh 18.213 ¢/kWh 17.216 ¢/kWh
Adds 10% voluntary
renewable energy
(MA Class I RECs)
No additional
renewable energy
Adds voluntary
renewable energy
(MA Class I RECs) to total 100%
No additional
renewable energy
No additional
renewable energy
June 2024 through December 2027 November 1, 2023 through July 31, 2024 January 1, 2023 through July 31, 2024

Future savings cannot be guaranteed. The additional RECs qualify for MA Class I designation and come only from solar, wind, anaerobic digestion and low impact hydro. RECs are the accepted legal instrument used to track renewable energy generation and to substantiate claims of renewable energy use. Learn more about the product details and renewable energy content here.

If you do not receive a letter, you will not be automatically enrolled. You may join the Program by submitting a request to enroll here.