Supplier Information

NHEC Members

As a New Hampshire Electric Cooperative member, you have a number of electric energy supply options.  Co-op Power is the electric energy supply offering managed by NHEC.  You may also choose to purchase from a competitive energy supplier, or, if available in your town or county, a community power aggregation.  To view a list of competitive energy supplier products and prices, please visit the New Hampshire Department of Energy web site.  We cannot for the accuracy of this list of energy suppliers or buying groups, or whether the listed parties are actively marketing electricity to customers in our service territory.

For more information, please visit the Electric Choice page.

Current and Prospective Suppliers

Current or prospective competitive energy suppliers should e-mail CompetitiveSuppliers@nhec.com, while current or prospective community power aggregations should e-mail CommunityAggregation@nhec.com

Initial Supplier Requirements

This is a general summary of some of the requirements for new competitive suppliers in the New Hampshire Electric Cooperative’s service territory.

 1.       Attend a Supplier Training session which will provide more details on requirements, rules, roles, practices, and relationships between Utilities, Suppliers, and Customers under electric restructuring.

2.       Meet the requirements of and register with the New Hampshire Public Utility Commission.

3.       Complete, sign, and have notarized two copies of the appropriate supplier agreements along with two signed and notarized copies of the NHEC Non-Disclosure Agreement with NHEC.  Existing competitive suppliers must execute a separate set of agreements in order to be configured for community aggregation.

4.       Pay NHEC’s EDI testing fee and then complete EDI testing with NHEC for each agreement.

5.       Must be a NEPOOL participant or be affiliated with a NEPOOL participant.

6.       Complete load asset registrations for each NHEC ISO Metering Domain for each agreement.

7.       Must read and become familiar with NHEC’s tariff (Sections 4 and 5 Member Responsibilities Regarding Competitive Energy Supply & NHEC Transactions with Competitive Suppliers and Market Participant End-Users), as well as New Hampshire Public Utility Commission rules.  For questions regarding the New Hampshire Public Utility Commission, please visit the New Hampshire Public Utility Commission web site.

Load Settlement

The NHEC Load Profiles file consists of average hourly member loads by load profile in kWh.  Distribution losses and transmission losses to pool transmission facility (PTF) are not included in the data.

NHEC’s distribution loss factor is 1% for ski areas, 3.76% for primary members, and 7.45% for all other members.

NHEC is represented in the NEPOOL/ISO Power System Model as three distinct Network Nodes (Metering Domains), based on the transmission utility NHEC is interconnected with in a particular geographic area when NHEC became open to competitive suppliers.

Load Assets located on the 31 NHEC delivery points interconnected with Eversource are attached to Metering Domain ID #1153. For Metering Domain #1153 the transmission losses back to the PTF are 1.98%.  Load Assets located on the three delivery points (Charlestown, Goose Pond, and Monroe) interconnected with NGRID are attached to Metering Domain ID #1154. For Metering Domain #1154 the transmission losses back to the PTF are 2.00%.  Load Assets located on the four delivery points interconnected with Eversource via Green Mountain Power (Cornish, Lyme, North Charlestown, and Haverhill) are attached to Metering Domain ID #1155. For Metering Domain #1155 the transmission losses back to the PTF are 5.843%.