Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Do Aggregation with Green Option!

Highland Park is looking at electric aggregation and is working with 7 other communities on putting out an RFP for an electric provider. Issue is on the March 20th ballot. I asked if people were going to have an option of Green energy or Brown energy. The answer was that the community would pick the option and my concern is that it will be cheap and brown. There will be an opt out provision but I would much prefer the leverage of communities buying power supporting green power in some fashion. I proposed options for our consumers in the RFP but was not getting very much traction. Also, I am unclear how these contracts effect smart and net metering which we will rely on for future advancements in energy conservation.... Can people out there clarify some of these issues so we can properly promote Green energy and methodolgy in these deliberations... HP will have another public meeting in two weeks and vote on the ordinance the second meeting in March. Let's be educated voters and think before we DO.