Clean Energy Costs More Money

[MaxPC]

This is the program they were offering me. They said that they didn't need any of my information to enroll me in the Blue Sky program, since they had it already. All they needed was my verbal consent to be enrolled.
https://www.pacificpower.net/savings-en ... nergy.html
They frequently send me emails, and regular mail, informing me of this wonderful program. I'd heard of it before. But this is the first time they called me to try to sell me on it.

This is sort of like someone offering to sell me non-chlorinated, non-fluoridated water for more money. But then telling me that they will simply pipe it into the same city water system that is chlorinated and fluoridated.

I agree with you. It seems to me that they want their customers to underwrite something. That is quite a bit of dosh per household and multiplied by thousands of households …,

[Josh]

I like the choice I have for electricity in TX.

My sole-source taxpayer-owned public utility here in Clark County Washington charges me 8.16 cents kWh. https://www.clarkpublicutilities.com/ab ... ter-rates/ For electricity that is 2/3 carbon neutral (hydro, nuclear, wind) and 1/3 fossil fuel (natural gas).

Back in Waco where we used to live there are dozens of choices in the deregulated private energy market with prices ranging from 11.1 cents kWh to 18.2 cents kWh. https://www.choosetexaspower.org/electr ... RfEALw_wcB

I'll take my lack of choice over those choices any day.

You live in the PNW where hydro is abundant (we all know that that "renewable energy" is almost entirely hydro). Not really a fair comparision.

[JimFoxvog]

I am considering signing up for such a plan. Here it's about the same cost.

It does seem a bit of a fiction that one is getting clean energy when it all is provided over the same grid. If electrical demand goes up they will burn more coal and natural gas, not generate more wind power.

But subscribing to a clean energy company will help them build more wind generators or solar panels.