RE “GREEN electricity finds few customers in Mass.’’ (Page A1, Jan. 31): While the article describes a unique program for the most dedicated renewable energy supporters to embrace green electrons, the headline may have created the impression that the Massachusetts plan for renewable growth is to sell gold-plated renewables contracts one customer at a time.
We are not moving to renewable energy by finding one customer at a time to switch to 50 to 100 percent renewables. We’re taking a more balanced, cost-effective, and sustainable approach of gradually blending renewables into everyone’s energy mix, along with cost-effective energy efficiency, smarter management of energy across the grid, and more efficient use of natural gas.
The result from 2008 through 2010 has been energy bill declines of 11 percent for the average residential customer, lower emissions, and more of our energy dollars staying in our regional economy.
This approach is providing market signals for renewable technologies and developers to aggressively scale and lower the costs of renewables to all of our benefit, while creating jobs and accelerating clean energy innovations.
So while the dedication of a few leading-edge
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