{"id":1091,"date":"2012-02-20T12:28:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/selling-solar-power-in-richmond-hill-lower-rates-for-customers-llc-2012-02-17.html"},"modified":"2012-02-20T12:28:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T17:28:36","slug":"selling-solar-power-in-richmond-hill-lower-rates-for-customers-llc-2012-02-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/selling-solar-power-in-richmond-hill-lower-rates-for-customers-llc-2012-02-17.html","title":{"rendered":"Selling Solar Power in Richmond Hill: Lower Rates for Customers LLC 2012 02 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGknBng_pfM\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7210\/6910586189_145963754e_t.jpg\"><\/a>\nWhile Georgia Power\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/georgia-power-opposes-sb-401-and-lower-rates-for-customers.html\">\ninvokes forty-year-old territoriality laws<\/a>\nto try to prevent you from selling or buying solar power with\nwhomever you want to,\nDrs. Sidney Smith and Pat Godbey continue to open new solar power\ninstallations, this time in Richmond Hill, Georgia last Friday.\n<p>\nDr. Sidney Smith said the new installation lowers\nthe customer&#8217;s electricity rate and doesn&#8217;t raise it for two years.\n<p>\n<table style=\"float:right;border:none;width:30%;\"    class=\"sidetable\"><tr><td>\n<H3>The emailed invitation:<\/H3>\nLower Rates for Customers LLC celebrates the second installation of\nselling power to South Eastern Pathology Associates at 1pm Friday February\n17th at the Georgia Skin and Cancer Clinic located at 9665 Ford Avenue\nRichmond Hill, Georgia 31324.\n<p>\nJoin us to celebrate the expansion of our company in Bryan County as we\nlower the power bills for another customer. We will continue to lower\nour customers electric bills by 1% and fix their rates for two years.\n<p>\nWe look forward to seeing you.\n<p>\nDr. Sidney Smith and Dr. Pat Godbey\n<\/td><\/tr><\/table>\n<blockquote>\nI don&#8217;t think Georgia Power is going to offer that rate, are they?\nNo, I don&#8217;t think so.\n<\/blockquote>\nBut that&#8217;s just the start.\n<blockquote>\nWhat we&#8217;re doing though is we&#8217;re creating a system where this\ncommunicates with software.\nWhat our real goal is\nis to go to\nsouth Georgia farmers\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6910578053\/in\/set-72157629403759835\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7195\/6910578053_a18bd44b15_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nand say put solar  panels on your property, and\nwe&#8217;ll connect those to the grid.\nSell power through the grid, and we&#8217;ll give credit to somebody else\nin the state who wants it.\n<\/blockquote>\nHe gave an example.\n<blockquote>\nIf you live in Atlanta, you don&#8217;t have any property to put solar\npanels on, do you?\nI think there&#8217;s are a lot of people in Atlanta\nwho would like to rent some property right now, don&#8217;t you think?\n<p>\nHow about if you could actually, out in the county,\nhave an income that would last forever?\nThat would be an investment that you could make today,\nthat a generation in the future  would be able to take advantage of.\nAnd the possibility of that happening is real.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/6910582509\/in\/set-72157629403759835\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7205\/6910582509_e132450b12_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nThe only thing that stands between that happening,\nand our future being very different,\nis legislation.\nThey&#8217;re actually passing some bills now,\nthat solidify\nthe fact that I can put this on this property.\n<p>\nGeorgia Power right now&#8230;\n<\/blockquote>\nGeorgia Power\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/georgia-power-opposes-sb-401-and-lower-rates-for-customers.html\">\nopposes SB 401<\/a>, which is the bill Dr. Smith was referring to.\n<p>\nIf you want SB 401 to pass, you can\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/help-pass-ga-senate-bill-401-to-facilitate-distributed-power-cogeneration.html\">\nsign the petition<\/a>\nor\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2012\/02\/georgia-power-opposes-sb-401-and-lower-rates-for-customers.html\">\ncall your state senator<\/a>.\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lGknBng_pfM\">\nthe video:<\/a>\n\n<!--more-->\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lGknBng_pfM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<br>\n<small>\nSelling Solar Power in Richmond Hill: Lower Rates for Customers LLC 2012 02 17\n<br>\nSouth Eastern Pathology Associates,\n<br>\nSelling Power, Lower Rates for Customers LLC (LRCLLC),\n<br>\nRichmond Hill, Bryan County, Georgia, 17 February 2012.\n<br>\nVideos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.\n<\/small>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Georgia Power invokes forty-year-old territoriality laws to try to prevent you from selling or buying solar power with whomever you want to, Drs. 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