Re: [H] Gas prices

[Hayes Elkins]

Why would a power company who's end goal is to make money want to cripple 
their revenue stream by making homes super efficient? I see short term cost 
savings in this example but I fear there is really no incentive for power 
companies to encourage energy savings.

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Subject: Re: [H] Gas prices
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 12:59:24 -0500

On 18 Aug 2005 at 3:17, Stan Zaske wrote:

> A better idea is to ban all incandescent lights for compact
> fluorescents which only use 1/4 the energy!

Now that you mention it, there was a study published by the Rocky Mountain 
Institute (http://www.rmi.org/) a while back, when the electric utility in 
Colorado had submitted plans
to build a new electric power generating plant, that showed that if the 
utility bought CF lights,and passed them out for free to all of their 
customers to replace all the incandescent
lights in their homes, it would save MORE electricity than the new plant 
they were planning on constructing would generate operating at full 
capacity, and save them the tens of
millions of dollars of the cost of the construction of the new plant.

Amazing.

Vince