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 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.