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Why is My Eversource Electric Bill So High?
Answers and solutions to your biggest question
Usage
The amount of your bill depends on how much energy you use. Your electricity usage impacts both the supply and delivery portions of your bill.
As temperatures rise, your home cooling system has to work harder, so you use more electricity. Most people use about 30% more electricity during the summer months to keep cool, and that increase can be even greater when there are multiple heat waves like last year.
Even if you don't change the settings of your air conditioner, the outside temperature will affect your usage as more energy is used to maintain the same temperature.
Without touching the thermostat, you will use more energy on a 95-degree day than a 75-degree day.
What you can do
From closing your blinds to sealing cracks, there is a lot you can do to make your home more efficient during warmer months.
A Home Energy Assessment can connect homeowners, renters and landlords with a specialist to find energy-saving opportunities in your home and connect you with rebates to help make improvements. Income-eligible options are also available.
If you have an online account, you can view your usage history in an interactive graph, compare your bills across months and years, and see where in your house is using the most electricity.
Market Influence and Supply
If you don't have a third-party supplier or participate in a municipal aggregation, the cost of electricity supply that we purchase for you typically goes down in the summer as the demand for natural gas for home heating declines.
That decrease is usually offset by the increase in energy used to keep homes cool, resulting in larger overall bills.
Your supply charge is a pass-through cost, we do not make any money from it. What we pay is what you pay.
System Investments and Mandated Charge
Bringing Safe and Reliable Electricity to Your Home
The core of our business is safely and reliably delivering power to your home.
There is a cost to build, maintain and operate the regional transmission system that brings electricity from power generators. These are the large, lattice steel towers you may see while driving along a highway. These charges are federally regulated.
Local delivery is the system of poles and wires you see lining the streets. Beyond delivering the power to you safely and reliably, this charge also includes the cost of local employees and the cost of improvements that make the electric grid more resilient, reliable and modernized for the future.
Unlike a flat charge for the delivery of a package, the local delivery charges on your energy bill are driven by how much energy you use and can vary from month to month.
Diver deeper into elements funded by these costs
Required public programs
A portion of your delivery charge includes costs we are required by the state and federal government to pass through to customers for financial assistance and energy efficiency programs, and funding clean energy options.
These statewide efforts help support Massachusetts’ greenhouse gas reduction goals. The costs of these growing programs, like the costs of system investments, are recovered through rates paid by all customers.
Make the Most of Programs You Contribute to
We offer a variety of programs that help you lower your energy use and receive help with your bill if you need it. You’re contributing to these programs through your bill, so take advantage of the resources available to you.
Manage Seasonal Bill Spikes
Tired of seeing spikes in your bill? You may want to consider our Budget Billing program, which lets you divide your annual energy costs into fixed monthly payments so you know exactly how much your bill will be each month.