Re: Energy Conservation Incentives from Electric Companies

[Rick Yoder <ryoder@mail.unomaha.edu>]

Listened to a  very high level
view of decoupling on a LOE podcast just this morning - two states are
doing it, CA & MD
http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.htm?programID=09-P13-00005#feature2

cheers

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From:	"Vinson, Thomas" <tvinson@uta.edu>
To:	"p2tech@great-lakes.net" <p2tech@great-lakes.net>
Date:	02/10/2009 10:49 AM
Subject:	Energy Conservation Incentives from Electric Companies
Sent by:	owner-p2tech@great-lakes.net

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The President was discussing restructuring
electric bills “like California” to reward people for conservation.  
“What
they do is, the utility is able to make money not just on how much energy
it sells, but it's also able to make money on how much energy its customers
save.”
 
 Full text of this discussion is here:
 
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/country-with-cheapest-clean-energy-will-win-economic-competition-of-future.php
 
Does anyone have details on how California’s
structure works?  Are there similar efforts outside of California.
 I vaguely recall a Swiss company doing this.  
 
Thomas Vinson-Peng
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