{"id":4573,"date":"2010-11-14T03:35:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T09:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2010-11-14T04:09:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T10:09:38","slug":"a-better-deal-on-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=4573","title":{"rendered":"A Better Deal on Green Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenmountain.com\" target=\"_blank\">Green Mountain Energy<\/a> for about 3 years now. I&#8217;ve always been willing to pay a little more to support cleaner electricity, and the company employs good people. Thanks to Green Mountain&#8217;s success and the growing interest in green products, several power companies now sell 100 percent renewable electricity at rates lower than Green Mountain&#8217;s. So I switched.<\/p>\n<p>I was paying 11.5 cents per kilowatt-hour, which is high but much less than I was paying a couple of years ago. On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powertochoose.org\" target=\"_blank\">PowerToChoose.org<\/a>, I found a host of companies offering the same renewable electricity for under 9 cents\/kwh. Yes, please. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trieagleenergy.com\" target=\"_blank\">TriEagle Energy<\/a> won my business with a 12-month fixed-rate plan for renewable energy for 8.2 cents\/kwh plus a $4.95\/month service fee, making the effective rate for us about 8.6 cents. We&#8217;ll be saving about 25 percent over our current rate. I like the sound of that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been with Green Mountain Energy for about 3 years now. I&#8217;ve always been willing to pay a little more to support cleaner electricity, and the company employs good people. Thanks to Green Mountain&#8217;s success and the growing interest in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/?p=4573\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4580,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/4580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.andybox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}