Connecticut residents can use 'clean power' while sticking with current company
New Haven Register, Conn. --Oct. 21
Oct. 21--Electricity customers can stay with their current power companies and still sign up for "green power" under a final decision by the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control released Wednesday.
Beginning in 2005, consumers may sign up for 50 percent or 100 percent of
their electricity to be generated by clean power sources, but they will pay more
for that portion of their power supply.
"Until suppliers are selected, we won't know the price," said Derek
Murrow, director of policy analysis at Environment Northeast's New Haven office.
State officials hope to have clean power suppliers lined up by year's end.
They will be selected from the New England or mid-Atlantic states.
"Connecticut consumers have expressed a desire for more electricity
options and for cleaner power. This program offers them both. It also brings
companies into the state and spurs the development of a competitive electricity
market," said Anne C. George, lead state commissioner in the case.
The electric utilities will assist by enclosing marketing fliers from clean
power suppliers in electric bills and posting information on their company Web
sites.
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