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- Subject: --New York Looks at Green Pricing
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- /* Written 12:45 pm Dec 21, 1992 by tgray@igc.apc.org in igc:en.energy */
-
- NEW YORK LOOKS AT
- 'GREEN PRICING'
-
- The New York Public Service Commission is working on a "green
- pricing" plan that would allow consumers to choose whether to pay
- higher electricity bills for power from clean, renewable energy
- sources, according to The Energy Daily.
-
- Several other states, the article said, are considering the
- concept, which was developed in detail by David Moscovitz of the
- Regulatory Assistance Project in a study commissioned by the World
- Resources Institute.
-
- A number of polls and studies have shown that many consumers --
- perhaps as many as 40 percent or 50 percent -- are willing to pay
- more for power from sources that do not damage the environment,
- according to Moscovitz.
-
- New York is looking at a trial implementation of the concept in
- connection with its state energy plan, which calls for the state's
- utilities to install 300 MW of renewable energy generating capacity
- by the year 1998, the article said.
-
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