The Greenfield, Massachusetts Recorder has a story on the town's recently approved opt-out municipal electric aggregation program, and includes a bizarre quote from a town official who claims customers do not currently have any choice for electricity.

The Recorder quotes Carole Collins, the town’s energy and sustainability director, as stating, "Currently, WMECO customers have one offer for electricity with no choice, but with Greenfield, customers will have options to choose from, including being able to lock in the price for up to two years."

Greenfield is in the WMECO service area.

We have found residential electric offers for WMECO customers from Viridian Energy, Gulf Electricity, Energy Plus, Xoom Energy, U.S. Gas & Electric, and Constellation Energy, and several other suppliers are also offering residential service at WMECO. Viridian Energy, USG&E, and Xoom also offer renewable energy to WMECO residential customers, to the extent the municipal aggregation is premised on the lack of green choices available.

This is not the first time a municipal aggregation official has been over-zealous in disparaging the individual choice market. As previously noted, an Illinois municipal official claimed that customers who eschewed a municipal aggregation in favor of individual shopping would "pay more" despite competing suppliers offering rates lower than the aggregation's rate.