Jan
23
2008
 5

We Signed Up


Austin uses wind generators to provide clean energy to 55,000 Austin residences. Today, Erwin House became one of them.
This is a HUGE deal to me. I’ve tried three other times over the years to sign up for this program, but I’ve never been able to get online on time. The seats are gone in seconds. This time, we just plain got lucky.
I wish I could say it would help us save those pennies for the solar installation, but the truth is that this good deed will cost us almost twice per kWh compared to coal ($0.055 instead of $0.0325). Thank goodness for that handy dandy tax rebate ;-P

5 Comments for We Signed Up


Josh
January 23, 2008, 10:52 am

Yay! I finally got signed up too after hounding them for years about when they would open up more slots.
Note that the GreenChoice per kWh is fixed for until 2023 so you’ve got some price stability, and there’s a good chance you could be saving money compared to non-GreenChoice customers in the future.
By tax rebate are you referring to the solar rebate?


Jennifer
January 23, 2008, 11:30 am

Very exciting. I was on wind power all the way through college… it’s so worth the extra money!
Unfortunately, when we bought the house and moved, we entered the realm of a different electric company that doesn’t have wind power. Sigh. I’m counting the days until they “fix” that!


Christiane
January 23, 2008, 12:58 pm

By tax rebate are you referring to the solar rebate?
I was actually being tongue-in-cheek about the supposed tax rebate that Bush wants to dole out to all taxpayers ;-)


Kimber
January 25, 2008, 10:37 am

Congratulations-I was lucky enough to get into GreenChoice two years ago and I am so very happy they are opening it up for others.
Makes me proud-yet again-to live in Austin!


JP
January 25, 2008, 2:18 pm

Congratulations, that’s excellent.