Before you sign up for NSPI's Green Power...

Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:48:24 -0300 (ADT)
From: Larry Hughes <lhughes2@is.dal.ca>
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If you're thinking of signing up for NSPI's Green Power programme, you
might want to read the following submission to the UARB:

http://www.dal.ca/~lhughes2/environment/uarbgp.html

It explains why NSPI should not be permitted to charge a premium of 4
cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity from the two wind turbines it is
about to install.

Larry.

Larry Hughes, PhD
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 2X4, Canada

v: 902.494.3950
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e: larry.hughes@dal.ca
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