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Until Monday, fires had covered only about 5% of the acreage burned by that date last year, and only about 13% of the average for the last five years.īut it’s too early - and maybe impossible - to tell if that can be attributed to increased measures to cut power. The winds that prompted the mass outage that affected about 2 million people in northern and central parts of the state shifted southward by Thursday, where a wind-driven wildfire led officials to order the evacuation of 100,000 people from their homes in foothills of the San Fernando Valley.Ĭalifornia is experiencing the first major fire activity of the season after two years that brought some of the most devastating fires on record, many of them caused by utility equipment. “They can’t prove they prevented a disaster because there’s no alternative universe where they didn’t try this.”

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.“It’s like trying to prove a negative,” said Alan Scheller-Wolf, professor of operations management and an energy expert at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business. Residential customers can begin reserving blocks starting on June 21st and Non-Residential customers (i.e., businesses) can register immediately! The solar plant is expected to be online later this year and you will begin getting credit for your clean energy by January 2017.

You can watch a video and learn more about the program by going to / subscriber.

Not only because we want to see more renewable energy use in our state, but also to show Rocky Mountain Power that there is a demand for this type of energy. HEAL is strongly encouraging Utahns to sign up. The program also differs from Blue Sky in that it allows customers to lock-in the “ Energy Generation Charge” portion of their bill for up to 20 years. This is a big plus because it increases Utah’s overall clean energy portfolio and gives options for individuals that cannot install rooftop solar in their home, but still want to support renewable energy. Unlike Rocky Mountain Power’s other program “green energy program” Blue Sky which partly involves purchasing green energy in the form of Renewable Energy Credits from out of state, Subscriber Solar in generated right here in Utah. If you would like, you can purchase enough blocks to make your electricity use 100 % renewable energy! So if you purchase one block you will be supplementing almost a fourth of your electricity usage with homegrown green energy. To put that in perspective, the average Utah home uses about 747 kWh a per month. These blocks are for 200 kilowatt hours (kWh) of solar energy each month. Customers will be able to sign up for “blocks” of energy usage. Subscriber Solar works like this Rocky Mountain Power has contracted with a 20 megawatt solar plant in Millard County, Utah to provide power for the next 20 years. The idea is definitely a step in the right direction for Rocky Mountain Power. Which brings us to their new program Subscriber Solar. However, that does not mean we don’t want to give a shout out to the utility when they make a move forward.

You can read more about it in our infamous Brown Sky Report. We often highlight their reliance on coal-fire power and their attempts to undermine the development of independent renewables in Utah. As you might have noticed, we here at HEAL can be pretty critical of our utility Rocky Mountain Power.