What is Gateway
Community Power?
Gateway Community Power is a community choice aggregation (CCA) program—comprising communities in New York’s Ontario County—that was formed in partnership with Joule Community Power, a division of Joule Assets.
The program enables participating communities to pool local electricity demand in order to leverage the collective buying power of their residents and small businesses in effort to secure more favorable energy supply rates, protect consumers, and support renewable generation sources.
The participating community with an active electricity supply contract through the program is the City of Canandaigua. The prospective or previously active communities with no active electricity supply contracts through the program include the Town of Canandaigua and the Village of Victor.
Our Vision
To provide residents and businesses with access to renewable electricity through at competitive rates. We seek to empower communities to become energy independent through renewable energy and local energy choice.
Renewable energy
Competitive rates
Consumer protection
Our Mission
To launch community choice aggregation (CCA) programs in order to secure clean, less expensive electricity for residents and small businesses across NY State. We seek to amplify the electricity savings achieved through the CCA electricity supply programs and promote clean energy generation in NY through community solar.
Our Offering
COMMUNITY CHOICE ELECTRICITY SUPPLY
CCA participants pay competitive prices for their energy supply.
What is Community Power?
Community Power is a concept and “toolbox” that puts energy decision-making authority in the hands of communities rather than the state, transferring power to enable local autonomy. Community Power ensures that even the smallest communities are equipped with the legislative framework and tools to become active leaders in the transition away from fossil fuels in favor of clean energy. The tool currently offered by Joule Community Power is community choice electricity supply.
What is Joule Community Power?
Joule Community Power is developing a clean energy future by bringing the power of choice to municipalities across New York State, empowering local decision-making, enabling access to cleaner and cheaper energy, and making it easier for New Yorkers to transition to renewable energy. Through community choice aggregation (CCA), Joule helps municipalities join together to aggregate the buying power of residents at large enough scale to negotiate more favorable terms of their energy contracts, decrease electricity costs, designate renewable generation sources, choose clean energy, increase consumer protection, select a default energy services company, support local renewable generation, and deliver the benefits of solar, or other renewables, to entire communities. Joule launched the first and only community choice solar program in the country, bringing the benefits of solar to entire communities. Having created the blueprint to guide communities through a smooth and empowering process that moves energy consumers away from fossil fuels to clean energy, Joule aims to scale its Community Power model across NY State and beyond. s of December 2022, Joule provided access to clean energy and community solar to more than 800,000 NYers in 52 communities.
Joule Community Power is a division of Joule Assets, Inc.
Learn More about Community Choice Aggregation in NY
The Public Service Commission (PSC) authorized CCA April 21, 2016. The PSC continues to regulate CCA with the support of the Department of Public Service (DPS). Information including CCA program rules can be found here on the DPS website.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) created a toolkit to support the development of CCA. The toolkit can be found here on NYSERDA’s website.