MUNICIPAL ELECTRICITY
What we use. What we spend.
Town municipal facilities · electricity use, cost and municipal operating budget.
Read-only review
Monthly invoice data incomplete. Missing October charges: Recreation Office + Storage. Known totals are partial; missing records are not zero.
01 / BUILDINGS
Trailing 12-month electric cost
Actual electricity charges are grouped to match annual 2026 General Fund budget lines where the budget covers more than one meter. Budget remaining equals the full 2026 annual budget minus January–October 2026 electricity costs. A positive amount remains for the rest of the year; a negative amount is over budget. Missing months are never treated as zero. Costs are each month's electricity charges after new credits, excluding payments and balances carried forward. A credit is counted once, when earned; using it to pay a later bill does not reduce that later month's cost again.
| Building / site | Trailing 12-month cost | 2026 annual budget | Jan–Oct 2026 invoice cost | 2026 budget remaining |
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Recreation credit balance, September 2026: $72.27 available for future bills, made up of $27.19 carried from August plus September's $45.08 credit. September's invoice cost is −$45.08; no payment is due. The $72.27 balance is not an additional saving.
SOLAR AND BUILDING USE
Electricity used, including solar
Estimated building use = electricity purchased from the grid + solar produced − solar exported. SolarEdge production is by calendar month; Eversource purchases, exports and costs are by billing period. The comparison covers 9 complete months in both years and remains approximate until the periods are aligned. Later incomplete months are excluded.
HISTORICAL TREND
Annual electric cost and net grid electricity
Net grid electricity is electricity received from Eversource minus solar electricity sent back to the grid. PSB and Recreation figures subtract solar exports; Recreation combines the Office and Storage meters. A negative value means exports exceeded purchases during that billing period. These figures do not measure total building consumption, which also includes solar electricity used on site. A drop after solar was installed does not by itself mean the building used less electricity. The January–September comparison above estimates solar used on site; monthly production and billing periods are not identical.
Show annual values and data coverage
| Year | Electric cost | Net grid electricity (kWh) | Coverage |
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MONTHLY DETAIL
These are the monthly recorded values summed for the opening-page total. Missing values are shown rather than treated as zero.
| Month | Building / meter | Electric cost | Net grid electricity (kWh) |
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