You must receive an electric bill from National Grid or Eversource to take part in JOE-4-SUN. If you don’t know your utility, click your county in the map below to check.
No solar panel installation. We generate power at our solar projects across the Commonwealth.
You're guaranteed to save money without affecting your home or changing your energy supplier.
Your electric bill must show either a residential assistance discount rate (R2/R4) or a service address in a qualifying MA Environmental Justice (EJ) zone. If you don't have an R2/R4 rate, we will verify your EJ zone status for you.
Zoom in on the map and click on your town to see your electric utility.
Massachusetts utilities offer a residential assistance discount, commonly known as the R2 and R4 Rates, to income-qualified households.
If you don't have this discount but want to apply for JOE-4-SUN, submit your application. We will let you know if you qualify as an Environmental Justice Area resident or send you an application for your utility's discount program.
Apply online for a Low-Income Discount at National Grid or Eversource.
This is a sample bill, your Eversource bill may look different.
Your monthly credit from JOE-4-SUN appears as transferred AOB credit under the heading “other charges/adjustments.”
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This is a sample bill, your National Grid bill may look different.
Your monthly credit from JOE-4-SUN appears as transferred AOB credit under the heading “other charges/adjustments.”
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This is a sample bill, your JOE-4-SUN bill may look different.
Your monthly credit from JOE-4-SUN appears as transferred AOB credit under the heading “other charges/adjustments.”
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No, JOE-4-SUN is not a utility company or energy supplier. You will continue to receive an electric bill from your utility as usual. JOE-4-SUN is a low-income community solar program that works with your utility to reduce your total balance due by applying credits to your electric bill.
JOE-4-SUN will save you $300 to $400 per year on electricity and connect you to the green energy revolution. You will receive discounted bill credits on your utility bill, which are generated by clean, renewable energy at our solar farms. JOE-4-SUN provides all the benefits of solar energy without the hassle of rooftop panels
As a JOE-4-SUN subscriber, you earn bill credits from the energy produced by our solar farms. Every unit of electricity we produce is assigned a dollar value by the utility and that total dollar amount is given to our local subscribers as bill credits that lower their utility bills. These credits reduce what you owe to your energy company each month. In our pay-as-you-go program, JOE-4-SUN then invoices you separately for the bill credits you have already received at a 50% discount. We are actively working with the state to simplify this system, but in the meantime, we are here to answer any questions you may have.
The value of the credits you receive each month will vary based on the weather and solar production. You can expect a higher credit value in the summer when we produce more solar power and a lower value in the winter, but the total annual savings you see will be between $300 and $400.
After you are accepted into JOE-4-SUN, we will send your account to the utility. You will see savings on your bill after being processed and assigned to one of our solar arrays by your utility, which takes 1-2 billing cycles.
