[Lekooks] Renewable electricity at LCUUC

[Kristin Sanden]

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!

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:29 AM Gerald Flakas via Lekooks <
lekooks at lekook.org> wrote:

> 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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Kristin Sanden
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