from the Capital Times, Madison
Don Merkes tells us that WPPI is the source of power for some of our local municipal utilities.
Sun Prairie-based Wisconsin Public Power Inc., which provides electricity to municipal utilities statewide, has filed with the Public Service Commission to double the amount of power provided for each $3 block of green energy customers buy."Costs for our Renewable Energy Program have gone down, and we're passing that savings along to customers," Tom Paque, WPPI vice president of customer services, said in a statement.
The program allows customers to voluntarily purchase monthly blocks of power from sustainable sources such as wind, biomass and water. Under the new pricing structure, each block will double from 150 to 300 kilowatt-hours. The change cuts in half the program's original 2 cents per kilowatt-hour price.
Forty WPPI member utilities offer the program, with more than 3,300 customers participating. Resources powering the program include wind turbines in Worthington, Minn., a hydroelectric power plant on Wisconsin's Black River, and a landfill biogas project in Outagamie County.
