Six Rockland County municipalities have joined forces in an endeavor to provide small businesses and residences with cost-efficient, locally-sourced renewable energy.
The initiative will be offered through Rockland Community Power (RCP), a program that enables the purchase of renewable energy at lower fixed costs than the price for standard electricity.
The six municipalities ”“ Clarkstown, Haverstraw, Nyack, Orangetown, South Nyack and Upper Nyack ”“ will participate in a community choice aggregation (CCA) that leverages collective buying power for their electricity purchasing. Five of the six communities chose to default residents to a 100% renewable electricity product at a fixed and lower price that is less than they otherwise would pay for their standard supply. Orangetown chose the RCP standard option at a lower fixed price while offering residents the choice of switching to the 100% renewable option.
The initiative is scheduled to launch on Nov. 1, with Joule Community Power serving as the program”™s administrator.
“This program is the result of a competitive procurement process,” said Mike Gordon, CEO at Joule. “The partnership of communities selected Constellation NewEnergy as their default supplier because they were offered a unique combination of competitive pricing, consumer protection and 100% renewable power.”
And what of the coal and natural gas subsidies propping up mining and fracking operations? Neither of those would be profitable without massive subsidies, but I take it you aren’t concerned about that.