Comments on: Why I don’t buy green power

By: Will

Will — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 18:30:12 +0000

You’re right, Eric. Many electricity providers have good alternative electricity options. Unfortunately, Duke isn’t one of them (although they’re starting to invest more in wind in northern Indiana).

Green power programs are worth paying for in some places, you just need to do some due diligence to make sure that it’s not just greenwashing.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:27:08 +0000

I’m on the fence about this; I don’t know about Duke’s bona-fides… I have Xcel, and they really do have a lot of wind online. Their Windsource program (http://bit.ly/ni3Yoz) really has made new investments in fairly-local wind power. So I was a big Windsource customer; now, with solar, I am a small Windsource customer.

It’s also cheaper here, while I pay about 3.5 cents per kWh for the program, they knock off about 2.8 cents per kWh because I don’t pay any fuel charge. So in the end, it’s about a 10% increase, or less, depending on the fuel prices that month. I had one month (when natural gas prices were very high) when I actually paid less than my coal-burning neighbors!

So I’d encourage people to think about it, because you don’t want to get greenwashed, but I think there are some good programs out there for green energy.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:33:24 +0000

Thanks for the kind words, Allen!

By: Allen Taylor

Allen Taylor — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:34:55 +0000

I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.

Allen Taylor