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How clean is the electricity you use?

9 pointsby limistover 15 years ago

2 comments

gchuckyover 15 years ago
The EPA maintains a list of green power companies at <a href="http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/pubs/gplocator.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/pubs/gplocator.htm</a>. It's honestly worth making the change if you can.<p>Here in NYC all you have to do is change which ESCO provides you power; I switched to ConEd Solutions two years ago. It's either 1 or 2.5 cents more per kWh (depending on which plan you pick) which works out to only a few extra bucks. Your energy is still technically the same (the electricity generated from your ESCO just goes into the general pool) but it's another step in the right direction.
zargonover 15 years ago
I pay a few bucks extra a month to have my electric company remove however much energy I use from their conventional pool and buy it from renewable sources instead. It doesn't seem to have helped much though because they just put into service a new $2 billion coal-fired plant. :(
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