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...couple of years ago Claude Lemieux and the Colorado Avalanche left the Detroit Red Wings a bloody mess-and Detroit has never forgiven the mountain men, even though Lemieux is now on his second team since then...
...Green Mountain's partnerships with religious groups have been mutually beneficial, but both sides see limitations. The latter don't want to push one company's products exclusively, and Green Mountain would like to dominate a mature or at least maturing market. "It's nice to be the only game in town," says Clifton Payne, president of Green Mountain's Eastern region, "but it might be better for all if 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...
That's why Green Mountain has yet to see profits, although some big--and surprising--names support it. (BP Amoco and Nuon, a Dutch utility, each pumped in $50 million last fall and took over the chairmanship from, odder still, Texas billionaire Sam Wyly, an oil and coal man who is also a longtime friend of President Bush's.) The Golden State could have been a huge market, but on Feb. 1 California stripped consumers of the right to choose their electricity provider, be it green or brown...
...operating in six states, Green Mountain bets that Ohio, Texas and others will make up for lost California accounts. By autumn it expects to serve about 600,000 nationwide. That's pretty low wattage, but with OPEC threatening to hike oil prices again, the future is, well, brightening. This year, an additional 1,000 MW of green power will come online, thanks to a doubling of wind capacity. Green-energy believers such as Bingham and MacAusland will just have to pray the politicians won't screw it up again and will let the people have the right to pick their...
...served in an old-fashioned dining car, a movie car where we watched a couple of new releases, and a wonderful porter to who turned down our beds and brought wine to our cabin. There was also a sightseeing car, encased in glass windows, where we watched the Cascade mountain range slide...