Renewable fixed-rate electricity plans
A renewable plan does something real, and it is not what most of the marketing implies. Here is the mechanism, stated plainly.
What you are actually buying
The electrons reaching your home are the same ones reaching your neighbour's. The grid is a shared pool, and there is no way to route particular generation to a particular house — that is not a limitation of the product, it is how alternating-current power systems work.
What a renewable plan buys is renewable energy certificates: for each megawatt-hour you consume, your retailer retires a certificate representing a megawatt-hour generated from a renewable source. Your consumption is matched, in the accounting sense, by renewable generation somewhere on the system.
That is a genuine market signal and a genuine purchase. It is not a claim about the physical electricity at your meter, and a plan that implies otherwise is overstating it.
The percentage is the retailer's figure
The renewable content shown on every plan here is the number the retailer published on the Electricity Facts Label. It is not calculated, estimated or adjusted by this site, and where a retailer publishes no figure, none is shown.
This site marks a plan as renewable only at 100%. A plan at 22% is displayed with its percentage in plain type, not dressed in the badge a fully renewable plan gets, because a partial figure presented the same way would be the card making an environmental claim the number does not support.
What it costs
Whatever the list says at your address on the day you look — and this site does not put a number on it in advance. Nothing here compares renewable plans against conventional ones as a group, so a figure for what renewable content adds would be an impression rather than a measurement.
It would not travel either. The same plan costs different amounts under different delivery utilities, because delivery charges are part of the bill, so a single figure quoted for the whole state would be wrong in most of it.
What you can do is read the difference off directly. Everything here is ranked by projected annual cost rather than by advertised rate, so at one address a renewable plan and a conventional one sit in the same list on the same basis. If the renewable plan is more expensive, the list shows you by exactly how much.
Plans marked 100% renewable
The badge described above is the whole filter, ranked on the same cost basis as everything else.
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