Green Initiatives
Welcome to the SGA Green Initiatives web page. This page contains information (notes/handouts) from various SGA meetings. This page helps advance the dialogue around Green Initiatives.
SGA Contacts
Click here to download Geoff Hartman's presentation from the CRM Conference.
Click here to download Texas Gas Service Ad Presentation 4
Below are notes and other information shared by members as a follow up to a July 20, 2007 conference call:
Download the notes from the Greenhouse Gas Conference Call
Greenhouse Gas Conference Call July 20, 2007
Link to the American Gas Foundation study from 2005
Public Policy and Real Energy Efficiency Assessing the effects of Federal policies on energy consumption and the environment: http://www.gasfoundation.org/ResearchStudies/public_policy.htm
Documents from a Duke Rate Case Filing in NC
Duke Comments to Piedmonts Filling
Duke Power Filing
Piedmonts Petition for Generic Proceeding
Piedmonts Reply Comments
Article posted on Fri, Jul. 20, 2007 - Charlotte Observer
Piedmont: Duke's 'save-a-watt' unfair CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK ckirkpatrick@charlotteobserver.com
At first blush, Duke Energy Corp.'s proposal to cut electricity demand on the order of a large coal-fired plant seems an idea industry critics can embrace.
But the Charlotte company's plan, called save-a-watt, has a growing list of detractors, including Piedmont Natural Gas Co., which contends the plan would give Duke an unfair advantage.
Save-a-watt would have to be approved by the N.C. Utilities Commission, which also factors in testimony from opponents.
The proposal, conceived to cut down on power industry pollution blamed for global warming, has veered into a debate on the merits of using natural gas to produce electricity.
Duke hopes to shave 1,700 megawatts of demand through a series of programs, including weatherizing homes and helping customers buy energy efficient appliances.
But Piedmont, also based in Charlotte, says Duke's efficiency program would unfairly encourage sales of electric water heaters over those that run on natural gas. It adds that the power industry's use of natural gas to run power plants has driven up gas heating bills for all customers. Encouraging electric water heaters in the name of fuel and cost efficiency would be disingenuous, Piedmont says.
Piedmont sells natural gas directly to customers for heating homes, businesses and water heaters. It says direct selling is the most efficient use and that instead of save-a-watt, the commission should examine a broader conservation and efficiency model for all utilities and all fuels.
Read tomorrow's Charlotte Observer for more details on this developing story.
