Alternative Energy: Green Electricity
Posted by Matthew Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:27:00 GMT
Last night I watched an alarming program on global warming. I was already freaked about our potential gas bill after peeking at our neighbor’s bill in January. Having an old house is great but not if you’re paying to heat the outdoors. Our place didn’t have insulation but that’s been rectified. We still have a bunch of windows to replace once we get in there.
At any rate, electricity is another concern since I’ll be working at home all of the time and thus be home consuming electricity all of the time. The green electricity offerings in the area are encouraging
Pepco Energy Services offers 100% green electricity at $0.1147 /kWh for 12 months. Washington Gas offers a $0.1225 /kWh rate. Compare that with the $0.1143 /kWh that I pay to PG&E for baseline usage. This year and last we used over 400 kwh of power for 3/10-4/10. We went over the baseline usage and paid a more painful rate for a small portion of power. Seems like green electricity is competitive and there isn’t really a reason not to do it.
There are some national offerings but some of their web sites are not well organized and the pricing of those plans is thus going slower.
I don’t want to switch power providers while the house is being worked on as a disruption of work would be disastrous. But as soon as we are out there in July I’m switching to green power. Still have to figure out what to do about not buying a new furnace though.
