[Lekooks] Renewable electricity at LCUUC

[Amy Taivalkoski]

UUCW is still on EFT because we are still on the 10 year contract with WE Energies getting $0.215 /kWh for our solar which required EFT. This  contract ends in June,but we will still be on EFT. 

Amy

On Apr 27, 2018, at 6:23 AM, Gerald Flakas <gerflak at aol.com> wrote:

Dennis and Amy, is UUWC on this EFT program?
Also, is UUWC getting any money from RECs from your solar PV? We did a few years ago but the price went way down and the purchaser/broker became unreliable in sending us our checks, so I don't bother with it any more. But maybe the price of RECs has gone up? Do you  know anything about this?
Gerry



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From: dbriley105--- via Lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org>
To: gerflak <gerflak at aol.com>; lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org>
Cc: ataivalkoski <ataivalkoski at wi.rr.com>
Sent: Fri, Apr 27, 2018 6:12 am
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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 <mailto:gerflak at aol.com>>
To: lekooks <lekooks at lekook.org <mailto:lekooks at lekook.org>>
Cc: ataivalkoski <ataivalkoski at wi.rr.com <mailto:ataivalkoski at wi.rr.com>>; dbriley105 <dbriley105 at aol.com <mailto: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/ <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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