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The Green Power Network (GPN) provides news and information on green power markets and related activities. The site provides up-to-date information on green power providers, product offerings, consumer protection issues, and policies affecting green power markets.
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Green Power Challenges Generate Community Buzz
Over the past two years, utilities and their marketing partners have increased the use of "green power challenges" to increase participation and awareness for their green pricing programs. The utility typically develops the challenge in partnership with local governments, who make their own purchase in conjunction with the challenge, and environmental nonprofit organizations, who can help communicate the challenge. Utility and local government decision-makers typically agree on a goal for a fixed number of sign-ups within a specified time, usually about six months.
In 2007, at least fourteen utilities offered challenges, mostly in small- to mid-sized ...
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CSU Launches REC Offering
Colorado Springs Utilities (CSU) is now offering its customers renewable energy certificates (RECs) in 100 kWh increments at a price of 34¢ each, or 0.34¢/kWh. When a customer signs up under the program, CSU retires the requisite quantity of RECs on their behalf. The REC program comes in response to strong customer demand for renewable energy; CSU's green pricing program is currently sold out.
The program is being supplied by a five-year REC contract between the
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DVP Seeks Regulatory Approval for Green Option
Dominion Virginia Power, a subsidiary of Dominion, asked the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) for permission to offer its customers two new options to purchase renewable energy. Pending SCC approval, residential and business customers would be able to purchase renewable energy starting in January 2009 through their monthly bills in two ways.
The first option to purchase renewable energy would allow customers to offset 100% of their electrical usage with electricity generated from renewable energy sources. Payments under this option would ...
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PA Plans to Expand Green Power Purchases
Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell announced that he has directed the state's Department of General Services to increase the commonwealth's purchases of renewable energy to 50% of the state's electricity needs from the current level of 30%. To achieve the 50% target, the state would need to purchase more than 500 million kWh of renewable energy annually. Pennsylvania is currently the largest state purchaser of green power. The Governor also set a goal of reducing energy consumption in state buildings by 10% by 2010 in addition to the 10% reduction in energy usage achieved in 2006. ...
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Renewables to Power National Political Conventions
Wind and solar power will supply 100% of the energy needs for the 2008 Democratic and Republican National Conventions. Because Xcel Energy serves both the Denver and Minneapolis-Saint Paul areas, sites of the Democratic and Republican Conventions respectively, it will provide the renewable power for both events. The Republican and Democratic National Committees will purchase the estimated 3 million kWh that the conventions will use from Xcel's
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Yampa Valley Lowers Green Energy Premium
The Yampa Valley Electric Association (YVEA), a consumer-owned cooperative utility serving Northwest Colorado and a portion of Wyoming, has lowered the premium for its green pricing program participants, from $3 per 100 kWh block to 60¢ per 100 kWh block (0.6¢/kWh) over the standard rate. The new premium is one-fifth the previous amount. For an average household meeting 100% of their energy needs through the program, the reduction would reduce their annual green energy premium from about $290 to about $57.
YVEA supplies its program with renewable energy credits (RECs) purchased from Xcel Energy. ...
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AmerenUE Expands Green Pricing Options
AmerenUE received regulatory approval to add a block option to its Green-e certified Pure Power green power offering for residential and small commercial customers. The new option of 1,000 kWh blocks, at $15 per block, was already available at the same price to large industrial electricity customers. This announcement expands that option to the other customer classes, who could previously only purchase renewable electricity for 100% of their usage, at ...
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MGE Program Reaches 10 Percent Residential Participation
Madison Gas and Electric's (MGE) green pricing program announced its residential participation has rapidly expanded during the four month period beginning in January 2008, when MGE made some changes in the program. Residential participation in the Green Power Tomorrow program went from 4,300 to nearly 12,000 customers during the period. More than 10% of the utility's residential customers are now participating in the program, and about 9.4% of all customers. Total sales for the program now exceed 135 million kWh per ...
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Green-e Certified Renewable Energy Sales Increase in 2007
According to preliminary data, the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) certified 15 million MWh of renewable energy sales in 2007, up more than 50% from 2006. This represents sales to more than 90,000 new residential customers and 50% more commercial customers, for Green-e certified renewable energy. The audited report will be released later in the fall.
The CRS Green-e program provides independent, third-party certification to ensure certified renewable energy meets environmental and ...
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First Gold Standard VER Registry Transfer
3Degrees, a provider of green power and greenhouse gas (GHG) verified emission reductions (VERs), conducted the first-ever transfer on The Gold Standard Foundation's Voluntary Emission Reduction (VER) Registry earlier this month.
Under the agreement, 3Degrees will retire 1000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emission reductions from Meridian Energy's approximately 90-MW wind energy project in Manawatu, New Zealand on behalf of its customer,
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