You must receive an electric bill from NYSEG to take part in JOE-4-SUN. If you don’t know your utility, check on the map below.
JOE-4-SUN is now enrolling National Grid customers in New York for electric savings.
No solar panel installation. We generate power at our solar projects in Castle Creek, NY and, soon, Albany, NY.
You're guaranteed to save money without affecting your home or changing your energy supplier.
National Grid customers must provide income-eligibility paperwork, a bill with an Energy Affordability Program (EAP) credit or a service address in a qualifying NY Disadvantaged Community (DAC).
See if your address is in a Disadvantaged community.
Check your utility bill in the map below. We are now enrolling NYSEG & National Grid customers.
National Grid in New York State applies an Energy Affordability Credit to customers enrolled in the Energy Affordability Program (EAP).
If you don’t have this discount, apply online for EAP at National Grid.
You can still participate in the program if you reside in a geo-eligible area, such as a Disadvantaged Community, or if you participate in SNAP, TANF, SSI, HEAP, EmPower New York. We’ll need a copy of your qualification letter within the last year.
This is a sample bill, your NYSEG bill may look different.
Your monthly credit from JOE-4-SUN appears as CDG stack credit under the “miscellaneous charges” heading.
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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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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.
No. There is no subscription fee, startup fee or termination fee for JOE-4-SUN. You will not be billed until after you begin to receive credits and then only for the credits that you use each month at a 50% discount.
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.
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 about $200.
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.
