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Readers’ Views: Enroll in Green Power
Editor,
A couple of months ago, as participants in the Indianapolis Power & Light Company’s Green Power Option, we received a letter from the Program Manager with an update about the program. One paragraph reads, in part:
Near the beginning of the letter, it is noted that “Interest in renewable energy and our environment continues to grow, and this is reflected in the increased number of IPL customers enrolled in our program. We now have over 3,000 participants, an almost 60 percent increase during 2008!”
The increase in the number of IPL customers buying electricity from renewable energy sources (currently wind and biomass) is indeed good news. But consider this: According to an IPL Web page (About IPL/History, within www.iplpower.com), “IPL now provides retail electric service to more than 470,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Indianapolis, as well as in portions of other Central Indiana communities surrounding Marion County.”
So the current 3,000 or so Green Power Option participants represent less than 1 percent of all IPL’s customers.
Even if you subtract the climate change disbelievers, and those who simply cannot afford another nickel added to their monthly bills, that’s got to leave more than 0.638 percent of IPL’s 470,000-plus customers, doesn’t it?
The current premium charge is a little over 0.6 cents per kilowatt-hour, or $6.50 for a household whose meter showed its electricity usage for the month was 1000 kilowatt hours. That’s for enrollment at the 100 percent level, but you can also enroll at the 50, 25 or 10 percent level.
If you would, if you could, call IPL customer service at 261-8222 or go to www.iplpower.com and sign up to help get us off this road leading further into a carbon-fueled future no one wants to live in.
Please.
Tom Probasco
Indianapolis
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