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Barrington Community Electricity is our town’s electricity supply program. The Program aims to help our community members manage electricity costs, increase renewable energy use, and reduce carbon pollution. Barrington Town Council approved this program in June 2020.

Public Meetings
The Town of Barrington and energy consultant, Good Energy, will hold a public informational meeting on Barrington’s new Community Electricity Program from 7 to 8:30 pm on Thursday, March 23rd. Interested in attending? There are several options:

• Attend the session in-person at the Barrington Middle School, in the Presentation Room.
• Attend via Zoom: Webinar ID: 841 6722 7499
  • Click on this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84167227499
  • Call in (305) 224-1968; +13052241968,,84167227499#  or +13092053325,,84167227499#

Additional information may be found on www.barrington.ri.gov.

Special Virtual Discussions
Tuesday, March 21st at 7:30 pm, Green Energy Consumers Alliance, the local non-profit that helps bring new renewable projects to New England will be holding a virtual discussion about our town’s community electricity program. A second meeting will take place on Thursday, March 23rd at noon. Please go here to sign up.

The table below summarizes the program’s residential options. For additional details, or for commercial and industrial pricing, see Electricity Options page here.

Notification Letter Sent in Late February – Customers eligible for automatic enrollment in Barrington Community Electricity were mailed a notification letter in early March 2023. If you received the letter, you are slated to be enrolled in Barrington Standard (9.361 cent/kWh) as of the May 2023 meter read. No action is necessary to receive this price. The deadline to opt-out and not participate in the program is April 8, 2023 (extended from April 3). If you are enrolled, you may always leave the program at any time, without penalty.

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. 

Barrington Community Electricity is a municipal electricity aggregation, operated by the Town of Barrington, and authorized by R.I. Gen. Laws § 39-3-1.2.

There are two parts to your Rhode Island Energy electricity bill, (1) Supply Services, and (2) Delivery Services. 

If you participate in Barrington Community Electricity:

• The utility, Rhode Island Energy, will continue to provide all Delivery Services, which includes responding to power outages. You will continue to receive your electricity bill from Rhode Island Energy.
• The Supply Services portion of the Rhode Island Energy bill will change to reflect your participation in Barrington’s program.
• Customers in the Low-Income Rate Class (A60) will continue to receive their current percentage discount on the entire electricity bill.
• Budget billing customers will continue to receive budget billing for the Delivery Services portion of the bill.
• Customers that receive solar electricity benefits from net metering credits and/or Renewable Energy Growth Program payments will continue to receive those benefits.
• You may leave the Program or switch to a different program option at any time, without penalty.