Manufacturing Energy Management in the Salem Region

Salem sits on the Massachusetts line and is served by Liberty Utilities — a third New Hampshire utility with its own tariffs and default-service rate, distinct from both Eversource and Unitil. New Hampshire's lack of sales tax pulls substantial Massachusetts retail traffic across the border, which gives Salem a retail and hospitality load driven by weekend and holiday patterns rather than by weekday commerce. That shape has poor load factor and heavy weekend peaks, an unusual profile that generic commercial offers price badly and that rewards a bid built on actual interval data.

Manufacturing is not the dominant sector in this territory, where cross-border retail, distribution, light manufacturing and hospitality carry most of the commercial load. That is an advantage worth using: a manufacturing load is unfamiliar enough locally that it is routinely priced off generic assumptions rather than off your actual usage. A 24/7 baseload with peak production hours profile at 500,000+ kWh/month is the specific thing we take to market, and the contract structure follows from it: fixed, indexed, or block-and-index, sized to your actual baseload rather than to a nameplate figure.