{"id":13669,"date":"2015-07-18T10:23:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T14:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=13669"},"modified":"2015-07-18T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T14:25:13","slug":"alabama-power-wants-more-renewable-energy-due-to-corporate-customer-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/alabama-power-wants-more-renewable-energy-due-to-corporate-customer-demand.html","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Power wants more renewable energy due to corporate customer demand"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nSouthern Company’s subsidiaries are all turning to the sun!\r\nEven that titanic ship is affected by the tugboats of its corporate customers.\r\n

\r\nAri Phillips, ClimateProgress, 16 July 2015,\r\n\r\nThis Massive Utility Wants More Renewable Energy Because Corporations Are Demanding It<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\nIn June, Alabama Power, one of the country’s largest electricity\r\nproviders, filed a petition with the state’s Public Service\r\nCommission to add up to 500 megawatts of renewable energy over the\r\nnext six years. The utility, which serves over 1.4 million customers\r\nin Alabama, cited customer demand as a primary reason for adding all\r\nthis renewable energy — specifically corporate customers.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\n“This program was driven by conversations with customers\r\nlooking to meet renewable mandates pushed down from their\r\nheadquarters,” said Tony Smoke, Alabama Power vice president\r\nof marketing, in a statement announcing the request. “As a\r\nservice provider, our focus is to make sure we are providing\r\ncustomers access to choices they want.”\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nIt’s like Southern Company CEO Tom Fanning said in May\r\n\r\n\r\nat the stockholder’s meeting: he still thinks solar power is expensive,\r\nbut people want to buy it, so he’ll sell it to them.\r\nAnd now it’s not just Southern Company’s\r\nGeorgia Power<\/a>\r\nand\r\nGulf Power in Florida<\/a>,\r\nit’s Alabama Power, too!\r\n

\r\nLike I’ve been saying,\r\nFixing climate change is profitable<\/a>.\r\nAnd in the sunny southeast, solar power is the fastest, cheapest,\r\ncleanest way to do that.\r\n

\r\nOne more to go: Mississippi Power, which better get a move on before Entergy and TVA eat its lunch.\r\nMore on that in a later post.\r\n

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