Green Power Programs by Utilities for Consumers

Pricing programs give consumers clean power choices

April 22, 2008 -- The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) annual ranking of leading utility green power programs provides insights into how consumers change their power-use behaviors.

Under these voluntary programs, consumers can choose to help support additional electricity production from renewable resources such as solar and wind. More than 800 utilities across the United States offer these programs.

Using information provided by utilities, NREL develops a Top 10 ranking of utility programs in the following categories:

• total sales of renewable energy to program participants
• total number of customer participants
• customer participation rate, green power sales as a percentage of
• total utility retail electricity sales
• the lowest price premium charged for a green power program using new renewable resources.

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