NStar Green

[flexagon]

I just found out about the NSTAR Green program. (For those who are not local, NSTAR is the provider of gas and electricity in my neck of the woods.)

To quote from their "Highlights":

• Basic Service customers can choose to have half or all of their electricity use support wind power.
• There is an additional premium for this option. Customers choosing to have 50% of their electricity support wind power pay an additional 0.837 cents per kWh, while customers choosing to have 100% of their electricity support wind power pay an additional 1.396 cents per kWh.
• Wind power will be generated at Maple Ridge Wind Farm in upstate New York, before traveling into the New England power grid.

As of our last bill, we seem to be paying about 19.87 cents/kWh, so the additional 1.396 represents about a 7% premium. Our electricity bills being pretty low, this is not exorbitant... it'll be around $6 per month, split of course between me and heisenbug. That's some cheap bragging rights! I'm still even more interested in local energy generation, but setting up a PV array is expensive as hell; here is a step that can be taken immediately and economically by anyone whose account is in good standing at NSTAR.

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[flexagon]

I might do it, because I am a nerdy goober and I think it's too easy to just not hear about things like this.

Alternatively, let's get together and use the flags to have a sword fight. :)