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...Green Mountain doesn't even guarantee clean energy to its customers - technically, they'll be plugging into the same dirty grid juice they used before - just that the electricity they pay for will be replaced by the cleaner energy Green Mountain's energy traders go out and shop...
...Today, Kelly is using the bathtub analogy. "Making electricity causes more air pollution than any other industry in the U.S.," he says. "We tell customers to think of the power grid as a bathtub full of dirty water. Sign up with us, and the energy you use may still all the electricity you draw out of the bottom, we guarantee we'll be put cleaner energy back in at the top. Eventually, the water gets cleaner...
...Right now, it looks like we are seeing a lack of conservation," Jim McIntosh, grid operations manager for the California Independent System Operator, told the Los Angeles Times. Though conservation is very difficult to measure, McIntosh said electrical use Tuesday was following historical patterns, and not showing any dips that could be attributed to conservation...
...there were more games in town." Local companies that offer green options siphon off potential customers--including 30 other EP&L churches--but Green Mountain remains the most dedicated national player. The total output of U.S. renewables is 16,500 MW, about 2% of the total U.S. grid. "Until the demand for green energy increases, you're just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic," says Adam Markham of Clean Air-Cool Planet, a nonprofit in Portsmouth...
...example, but it's also our transmission lines. The fact [is]that we badly need to modernize that infrastructure. Some of the problems in California, for example have to do with the difficulty they have moving power from Northern California to Southern California because of an inadequate power grid...