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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: --New York Looks at Green Pricing
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.164036.23389@vexcel.com>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <1466602014@igc.apc.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:40:36 GMT
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- In article <1466602014@igc.apc.org> Tom Gray <tgray@igc.apc.org> writes:
- >
- >/* 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.
- >
- >Tom Gray EcoNet/PeaceNet: tgray@igc
- >Internet/Bitnet: tgray@igc.apc.org UUCP: uunet!cdp!tgray
- >
-
- I have mixed feelings about this. Just at the time that there is a
- discussion going on in this group about true-cost pricing, we have
- here a policy that reinforces the attitude that environmental
- policies don't make economic sense. There are a number of studies
- that have calculated the externalities of the various
- fossil fuels on a per kwh
- basis. These costs should be added to the rate schedules and the
- money spent either on handling these costs or supplying cleaner
- power or maybe helping those who would be heavily impacted by the
- price increases. I believe that one state (Nevada?) has started doing this.
- --
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