In PA, you are allowed to contract with any electric power provider who can deliver over PECO lines. There is a website that features all of the available deals, fixed or floating rates. You can choose X% renewable if you want to, etc.
I usually go with an annual fixed rate contract. I am currently paying $0.063 per kWh. Best offer for next year is $.0905 per kWh. That's a 44% increase...in the fracking capital of the USA. We have access to the cheapest Natural Gas available for electric generation. People are going to go ape when this starts to become apparent. Of course, the same thing is true for heating via NatGas, Propane, and Heating Oil as well.
Seems your electricity is generated by natural gas. If that's true, your 44% increase is below national average. Good deal.
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Sen. Manchin is a supporter of nuclear power (see attached link)...what I see him doing is cooling it on the dash to wind and solar, while preserving some of the economic benefits his state gets now...at least for a little while longer. By his support for nuclear, he "gets it" about the future...IMO he's buying some time for what he might term as a "more orderly transition"...this is the VERY difficult part of getting off fossil fuels...not too surprising to me.
Baron is also right in that no one has yet stepped up to the plate and addressed the nuclear issue head on...this is why I'm in touch with my Congressman...and hope that everyone here will do the same...simple emails or calls from a lot of people will not go unnoticed.
P.S. Here's a news report from this morning on this issue of cuts to "The Bill"..https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/clean-energy-program-likely-be-dropped-because-manchin-s-objections-n1281698
Link: https://www.ans.org/news/article-2824/sen-manchin-urges-biden-to-preserve-us-nuclear-fleet/
……yes that plan will force energy companies to provide more and more of their energy from renewable sources (more expensive and less efficient leading to the same brown outs and use restrictions in peak hours that California experiences).
…..yes that plan pays the private energy companies to put up windmills, solar panels, etc
…..yes, the plan counts nuclear as clean energy, but the approval of new nuclear plants is a separate issue from funding, and that is where the bottle neck has existed for decades now.
…..no, the plan does not remove the bottleneck, and thus companies will be forced by practicality to put up the windmills, etc.
……yes, the plan would cripple the biggest industries in the state Manchin was elected to represent, but the only real practical alternative (nuclear power) is no closer to being implemented with the giant payout.
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...a real fix of the nuclear approval process has the best chance of being accomplished by electing Republicans, so THAT is our best chance at nuclear energy.
nuclear power...unfortunately, for the Dems, there are "100% Renewables ONLY" types, and on the GOP side, there are "What, Me Worry" types who can't imagine not burning fossil fuels...until there's no more, or their filling station is under water...so, we need to keep our shoulders to the grindstone.
Baron, you are correct in that both sides don't yet "Feel the Burn" ;-) for nuclear, but, given the GOP's recent lack of any policy initiatives on anything, other than to destroy our democratic institutions in rabid pursuit of "POWER", the "Prudential Choice" has to be the Dems if we hope to have a reasoned energy strategy that aims to address everyone's needs.
table deals that have gone on with Green Energy and how much nuclear would upset the sweet deals. On the Republican side, Big Oil still has influence as well. But overall, i think that the Party of Regulation and Redistribution (Democrats) is least likely to allow a straightforward answer to our problems to succeed.
on both sides...the only other comment I'd make in reply is that I've been involved in this issue for 47 years now...back in the 70's in CA I spoke out in public gatherings when "Proposition 15" was being promoted to stop nuclear power there, and so I never underestimate the extreme Left element.
We can talk about the 'Party of Regulation' and the 'Party of No-Oversight' some other time.
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"killing things in their infancy" thing...let us know.
I'm still trying to figure out what the 'productive' purpose was of your post...pure 'levity'?
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Global efforts to curb fossil fuel production are coming home to roost.
Let's hope it's a mild winter.
Guaranteed, when this becomes an issue, as people are struggling to pay their heating bills, the usual suspect will blame 'predatory' energy companies. Our compliant media will ignore their complicity in curbing energy production.
Hear me now, believe me later.
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off as will be the HVAC units. It looks like I will recover my costs in a few short years.
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