We have it hear, I thought it was widespread, maybe not. Transmission is unbundled from generation.
I find it annoying. The alternative power companies are always calling to get you to switch, sometimes with misleading sale tactics. You hear about people falling for bait-and-switch pricing where they end up paying more for their power. Also many municipalities put out bids and choose an energy supplier which then applies to all residents (or all businesses) unless they opt out. IMHO it's an unnecessary complication. It's not like gasoline where they can at least claim to have a better product, electrons are electrons, and the power is blended anyway. It's not like the power you get was generated by the supplier you chose, or that you will have less outages or better voltage or something. It's strictly about price. Electricity is a commodity. I don't want the hassle of choosing a power generation supplier each year. It feels just like choosing a health insurance supplier on the marketplace each year, I look forward to that like a colonoscopy. I think the power companies like ComEd and Ameren are forced to buy solar and wind power anyway from those who choose to generate it, so I'm missing the big benefit. I seriously doubt this has saved me any money from "competition". As far as the question about being a reseller for one of these power "CLECs", I would avoid it, if only because they are viewed by many people as kind of shady. Tricksters with robocalls. Maybe sell CBD oil instead, that seems to be all the rage. Apparently the remaining video rental places actually exist to sell CBD products. That must be fun. Take the kids to rent a VHS tape and they say "look, Daddy, they have gummies, can we get some?" -----Original Message----- From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 9:26 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Reselling Electricity They tried to do the CLEC type of thing with power years ago. Maybe just in California. Was a disaster. -----Original Message----- From: John Osmon Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2019 9:31 PM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Reselling Electricity On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 04:12:25PM -0400, Matt Hoppes wrote: > Has anyone here looking into becoming a reseller for a wholesale > electric company? At scale, that's effectively what a data center becomes... Never thought about it on bigger scale. -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
