Just a little bit of research provided me with some useful information regarding utility decoupling. Baltimore Gas and Electric in Maryland apparently earns profits based on the number of customers it serves instead of the amount of power it sells. The downside of that for the utility company, I assume, is that the number of customers served has a great deal more to do with population growth than with marketing. But hey, Georgia's population is growing. Why should Georgia Power complain about getting something for nothing?
More research is in order, I think...
Monday, June 4, 2007
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Hi Lisa,
i've been looking for something like this, thanks so much. the link doesn't work though.
Decoupling is pushed by people to give utilities are reason to support energy efficiency and Distributed generation technologies within their territory. I just believe that the utilities are fairly untrustworthy so I would want them to get decoupling ONLY IF they agree to firm energy efficiency and DG goals at the same time.
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