This Green Group Wants To Penalize You for Using Natural Gas—and Obtain Your Private Data To Do So

[mountaineer]

This Green Group Wants To Penalize You for Using Natural Gas—and Obtain Your Private Data To Do So
Renewable Energy Alaska Project demands local utility provider fork over consumer data to help form green plan
Meghan Blonder   
February 29, 2024
Free Beacon

A green energy advocacy group in Alaska is demanding a local utility provider fork over its consumers' private energy consumption data. The group wants to use that data to craft a new pricing plan that could penalize those who exceed a certain level of energy consumption.

Renewable Energy Alaska Project (REAP), an Anchorage-based nonprofit that works to secure "Alaska's clean energy future," petitioned state regulators last month in an attempt to compel the Chugach Electric Association to provide its customers' monthly energy consumption data. REAP says it needs that data to design a rate structure that would compel customers to use less natural gas—by charging them more once they surpass certain energy consumption thresholds.

Chugach, Alaska's largest electric utility, is refusing to hand over the data, citing privacy concerns. But if REAP convinces Alaska's regulatory commission to rule in its favor, the company won't have a say. Such a decision would effectively force Chugach to give the green energy group "the actual electricity consumption habits of virtually every resident and business in Anchorage," according to the Anchorage Daily News.

The ordeal reflects the left's ongoing attempts to stifle the use of natural gas, which nearly 60 million Americans use to heat their homes. In some liberal states and cities, including New York, Democratic lawmakers have moved to ban natural gas hookups in new buildings, effectively forcing the long-term phase out of fossil fuels. ...

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[Smokin Joe]

Is there something in these peoples' diet or pharmacopeia that makes them think this way, or is it just mass delusion?

[DefiantMassRINO]

To make up for the lost natural gas BTU's, us New Englanders will have to cut down more trees and kill more whales to stay warm during Winter.

[mountaineer]

Is there something in these peoples' diet or pharmacopeia that makes them think this way, or is it just mass delusion?

They've been fed a steady of diet of BS climate hysteria since childhood, I suspect. Mass delusion is the obvious result.

[Wingnut]

They can use the blubber for heating oil.

[Free Vulcan]

Guess I've never heard of an activist group having the right to regulatory authority. Under what law and regs exactly?

[SZonian]

Guess I've never heard of an activist group having the right to regulatory authority. Under what law and regs exactly?

CARB in CA? Composed entirely of appointed political hacks, none elected.

[Free Vulcan]

CARB in CA? Composed entirely of appointed political hacks, none elected.

Not sure these guys are even appointed. Self-appointed maybe.

[roamer_1]

They've been fed a steady of diet of BS climate hysteria since childhood, I suspect. Mass delusion is the obvious result.

It really is obvious to those standing without... But try to tell anyone standing within... It can't be done.

It really is an amazement, this mass delusion.

[SZonian]

Not sure these guys are even appointed. Self-appointed maybe.

True...

[Smokin Joe]

They can use the blubber for heating oil.

Edwin Drake, 1859, saved the whales.

(without proof oil could come from a well, the last of the whales would likely have been burned in a lamp on Beacon Hill before the end of the Civil War)