ENVIRONMENTAL VIEWS COULD TINT POWER BILLS; DWP TO OFFER CLEAN-SOURCE OR `GREEN' ELECTRICITY.Byline: Rick Orlov Daily News Staff Writer Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. : The city of designer clothes, designer cars and designer watches is considering a new option: designer power. Under a program recommended by a city panel Tuesday, customers of the Department of Water and Power soon could choose between power generated by oil and coal or so-called green power, created by the sun, wind, water and other renewable sources. ``We are going to clean this town up - clean power and more trees,'' said DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection General Manager David Freeman Freeman can mean:
The green power program recommended by the Commerce, Energy and Natural Resources Committee to the City Council will allow DWP customers over the next year to say whether they want to buy power from a renewable source. The council will consider the proposal next Tuesday and is expected to approve it. Freeman said it will take about a year for customers to start getting green power because the DWP needs time to sign up customers and make sure there is a market. ``We think there is a market out there,'' Freeman said. ``People tell us they want to buy clean energy, and we want to tap into it.'' The DWP will buy electricity from companies that specialize spe·cial·ize v. 1. To limit one's profession to a particular specialty or subject area for study, research, or treatment. 2. To adapt to a particular function or environment. in green power and charge the customers for it. Freeman said green power rates will be higher than those now charged, about $3 more for every $50 of electricity. But Councilwoman Ruth Galanter Ruth Galanter was a city councilwoman from Los Angeles. She served as President Pro-Tempore and President of the city council. predicted the total bills will remain about the same. ``We think with energy conservation and other programs, the bills won't go up,'' Galanter said. ``People don't really care what their rates are. They care about how big a check they have to sign at the end of the month.'' Freeman said he believes the program could attract more than 10 percent of the utility's 1 million customers. Eventually, Freeman said, he would like every house to be equipped with new solar shingles Solar shingles (or photovoltaic shingles) are a new type of solar energy system that, at first glance, look like regular asphalt shingles but are actually photovoltaic cells (PV). , which look like conventional shingles shingles: see herpes zoster. shingles or herpes zoster Acute viral skin and nerve infection. Groups of small blisters appear along certain nerve segments, most often on the back, sometimes after a dull ache at the site; pain becomes but generate electricity. ``Where people see a roof, I see a power-generating station,'' Freeman said. ``What we have in Los Angeles is a perfect combination of dirty air and a lot of sun. We can use the sun to clean up the environment and also create some jobs.'' Freeman said he believes the program also will give the DWP a competitive edge in 2003 when it has to open its market to competition from private firms. Automobile companies such as General Motors and Toyota, involved with electric vehicles, are interested in getting cleanly clean·ly adj. clean·li·er, clean·li·est Habitually and carefully neat and clean. See Synonyms at clean. adv. In a clean manner. clean generated electricity, he said. ``They have invested a lot of money in electric vehicles, and sales have not been going well,'' Freeman said. ``They want to get out the message that they aren't transferring the benefits of clean vehicles to using more dirty electricity.'' |
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