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At odds with this: Our local utility subsidizes efficient bulbs and appliances.
by neolefty 9y ago
At odds with this: Our local utility subsidizes efficient bulbs and appliances.
- falcolas 9y agoYou should ask the question: Why? Are they a cooperative who has the interests of its own users above profit? Are they receiving money from another entity to do it? Were they forced to do so in order to maintain their monopoly? And if it's none of the above - it's just good people - then that's f'ing awesome. I wish more were like that.
- toomuchtodo 9y agoIt's cheaper to subsidize energy efficiency than it is to build additional transmission and generation capacity.
- gowld 9y agoIt's a municipal utility chartered to serve the public not profit from them. And they don't want to make risky massive capital expenditures on another discrete block of capacity.
- scott00 9y agoMine does this as well. They do it because they've convinced their regulator to let them raise prices in exchange for doing it.