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Kolesar

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3. Electrical utilities can be required to fund efficiency projects

Reply to Vincardog (Reply #2)

Tue Mar 11, 2014, 09:18 PM

Mar 2014

It ultimately reduces peak demand, which saves the cost of constructing new generating plants.

Iowa has had a system since 2008, so this would not be a new issue to campaign on. I lobbied for the Ohio law in the same year. http://mwalliance.org/node/1867

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I am a delegate to the District and State. I am volunteering to be on the platform committee [View all] Vincardog Mar 2014 OP

Does Iowa have an "efficiency standard"? Kolesar Mar 2014 #1

IA has no auto efficiency standard. Vincardog Mar 2014 #2

Electrical utilities can be required to fund efficiency projects Kolesar Mar 2014 #3

climate change, verified voting, money out of politics rurallib Mar 2014 #4

Yikes. You're braver than I am cyberswede Mar 2014 #5