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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
So - Eversource, one of the big-league power companies, will get to improve its own plants, and Wynn gets a new casino. Eversource uses solar farms, geothermal energy and wind turbines, in addition to more traditional fossil fuel resources, to generate their power.
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Compared to SECO, Eversource totally sucks from a cost prospective if you are a customer. The cost of their so called green power sources are very expensive and those costs are passed on to their customers. I recently compared our monthly Eversource bill from our Massachusetts home to our SECO bill from our Villages home and the results were shocking. We used about two thirds of the power in Massachusetts and our bill was almost 150% of the SECO bill. I’ll take SECO over Eversource seven days a week and twice on Sundays. To be fair to Eversource, they are mandated to buy overpriced power from sources designated as green, and their costs of trimming trees overhanging power lines in rural New England towns is a factor as well. SECO also doesn’t have to deal with frequent winter power outages from heavy snow, ice, and freezing rain dropping trees and limbs on their above ground power lines. The bottom line with residential roof top solar in New England is that it is uneconomical without government subsidies and forced net metering. I’m all for green power, as long as its economics hold up without taxpayer or rate payer subsidies.