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<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:black;">The more I look into schemes like Arcadia Power and Energy For Tomorrow, where the customer pays a fee, or in the case of Arcadia, just signs up for their program, to get to claim they are using "renewable" electricity, the less I like them. These schemes use Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) for their programs.<br><br><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">A couple of articles about RECs:<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">First from Arcadia, diagramming how they work: <a style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px;" href="https://blog.arcadiapower.com/how-recs-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://blog.arcadiapower.com/how-recs-work/</a><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;">Then a watchdog.org article about how they really work (or don't really work):<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;"><a style="cursor: pointer; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;" href="https://www.watchdog.org/issues/economy/renewable-energy-s-economic-model-collapsing-as-rec-prices-plummet/article_fbb4287e-9c8f-51c0-955b-a300b6e54076.html" target="_blank">https://www.watchdog.org/issues/economy/renewable-energy-s-economic-model-collapsing-as-rec-prices-plummet/article_fbb4287e-9c8f-51c0-955b-a300b6e54076.html</a></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Looks to me that the RECs are just a certification that somebody, somewhere, produced (and sold locally), a certain amount of electricity from a renewable source, then the certifications are sold to somebody else who claims the renewably-produced electricity went to them instead of the what they actually got from their local utility. So this is how states, businesses, and homeowners can claim they are getting renewable energy that may have been produced and consumed anywhere, including out-of-state. Looks like a shell game to me. </div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Just my opinion, please feel free to comment if you see it any other way.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;"></div><div style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13.33px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Gerry</div><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Kristin Sanden <kmksanden@gmail.com><br>To: Gerald Flakas <gerflak@aol.com><br>Cc: ataivalkoski <ataivalkoski@wi.rr.com>; dbriley105 <dbriley105@aol.com>; lekooks <lekooks@lekook.org><br>Sent: Mon, Apr 30, 2018 10:52 pm<br>Subject: Re: [Lekooks] Renewable electricity at LCUUC<br><br></div>
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<div class="aolReplacedBody"><div><div dir="auto">Seems worth exploring more. I would support investing more into renewables if there is no “catch”. Pretty crazy that we have to pay money buy back renewable energy that we create!</div><br><div class="aolmail_gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:29 AM Gerald Flakas via Lekooks <<a href="mailto:lekooks@lekook.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">lekooks@lekook.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="aolmail_gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><div id="aolmail_m_-1313745387307404496AOLMsgPart_2_b3295d4c-6fe3-457a-b23a-3e5850d78008">
<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">I have heard about Arcadia Power from a number of sources. Apparently, they can arrange to supply 50% or 100% of your electricity from renewable sources, simply by signing up with them online. See the website <a href="https://www.arcadiapower.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.arcadiapower.com/</a>. This sounds almost too good to be true;<strong> do any of you have any experience with Arcadia Power, or know anyone who has?<br><br></strong>I put this on the LCUUC Facebook page yesterday, but received no response. Either nobody read it, or understood it, or don't care. In the last case, I guess we shouldn't consider it.<br><br>We have our solar PV system which delivers 2/3 of our electricity consumption to the WE Energies grid, but the energy we receive from the grid via WE Energies is only 10% renewable and 90% from fossil fuels. The article mentioned Arcadia Power as a </span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(29,33,41);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">way to increase the renewable portion. Apparently the way it works is that the customer pays their utility bill to Arcadia, which claims to provide 50% (or 100% for a $0.015 / khw surcharge), and pays the balance owed to the WE Energies. Apparently, for no surcharge, Arcadia would provide 50% renewable electricity to us; if this is actually 1/3 of our electricity, our total renewable percentage, which is now about 70%, would be about 83%. If we paid the surcharge, which would amount to around $400 per year for us, LCUUC would be 100% renewable.<br><br>So again, is there any interest in LCUUC switching over to Arcadia, in particular paying the surcharge to be 100% renewable?<br>And do any of you have any experience with Arcadia, or can recommend someone who has?<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Gerry Flakas<br><br></span></span></span></div>
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