He needed an LED light - an energy-saving Light-Emitting Diode bulb - that could plug into standard fluorescent-bulb light boxes. His store, Ski Haus Sports Center and Cycleworks, like many other commercial spaces, has a ceiling festooned with fluorescent lighting fixtures.
So Cerasani did a little research to find a company in China that could manufacture a retrofitted bulb, and now he's reaping the environmental and financial rewards of his ingenuity.
Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. has committed to giving Cerasani an incentive...
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Utilities - 2009-11-06 12:25:00
My bill from BGE shows both the electric supply and delivery charged on a per kWh basis. Both portions are higher when I use more electricity. My point is that I can't see BGE wanting its customers to have lower bills. They may want us to use less electricity, but they still want to grow their profits. That means charging higher rates so that we end up paying at least the same in total even though we use less of their product.
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It Does Make Sense - 2009-11-06 09:08:33
For Scott S.: The program does make sense if you understand that utilities are no longer paid by how much power they deliver, but rather just for doing the delivery. That's why you're able to buy your power from Washington Gas or another provider and BGE or PEPCO delivers it. You're right that the program is in part designed to drive down demand to avoid building costly infrastructure--but that model isn't BGE's. It comes from state and federal agencies that realize that we can't just keep building new power plants. To do that, you have to take the incentive away from utilities to earn more by producing more power. This is a good thing and there are programs like this elsewhere. No conspiracies.
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Fuzzy Math - 2009-11-05 14:40:17
Going from 45 watts/hr to 15 watts/hr is a reduction of two-thirds, not one-third.
I'm somewhat skeptical of this program...how does it really benefit BGE? I can't think of another business that asks its customers to use less of its product. My guess is that they're reaching capacity and can't produce much more energy without building more costly infrastructure. However, as a public company, they have to increase profits each year to survive. So if they can't sell more energy, that means they'll need to charge more for it.
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