[Lekooks] Renewable electricity at LCUUC

[dbriley105 at aol.com]

Jerry,
I'm staying with Energy for Tomorrow.  Through it I get 100% renewable energy.  The only issue I see is price.
Thanks,
Dennis Briley



-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald Flakas <gerflak at aol.com>
To: lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org>
Cc: ataivalkoski <ataivalkoski at wi.rr.com>; dbriley105 <dbriley105 at aol.com>
Sent: Wed, Apr 25, 2018 9:30 am
Subject: Renewable electricity at LCUUC




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 https://www.arcadiapower.com/. This sounds almost too good to be true; do any of you have any experience with Arcadia Power, or know anyone who has?

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.

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 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.

So again, is there any interest in LCUUC switching over to Arcadia, in particular paying the surcharge to be 100% renewable?
And do any of you have any experience with Arcadia, or can recommend someone who has?

Thanks,

Gerry Flakas





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