NC GreenPower will allow North Carolina’s citizens, businesses, and institutions the option to purchase renewable energy (or “green power”), which reduces air pollution. For a $4.00 monthly premium, electric customers will be able to purchase a 100-kWh block of electricity generated from biomass (plant and animal waste, and energy crops), landfill gas (methane), and small hydropower facilities--renewable resources that are readily available and plentiful in North Carolina. Eventually, solar and wind energy will be added to the mix. Customers may buy as many blocks of green power as they desire.

Approximately 125 utilities throughout the United States offer green power programs. North Carolina is the first state that has developed a statewide, regulated green power program.

NC GreenPower is designed to boost the production of green power by creating a market and an incentive for companies to develop and sell it. Due to current market conditions, it is too expensive for companies to profitably develop and sell such alternative sources of electricity. The voluntary premiums collected from NC GreenPower supporters will be used to offset the higher costs of developing and producing renewable energy. The program will be administrated by the Advanced Energy Corporation (AEC), an independent, non-profit organization with a 22-year history of working with renewable energy, energy efficiency and electric utilities.

View the Online Guidebook to learn how to interconnect with NC GreenPower.

See the AEC web site for updated information regarding NC GreenPower:

http://www.ncgreenpower.org