REPP Issue Brief No. 9, January 1998 REPP - Renewable Energy Policy Project - Issue Brief No. 9 - Peter Asmus - POWER TO THE PEOPLE: How Local Governments Can Build Green Electricity Markets

POWER TO THE PEOPLE
How Local Governments Can Build Green Electricity Markets

Peter Asmus

By combining the electricity loads of their citizens into one large buying group, municipal governments can purchase reasonably priced power generated from renewable resources, thus capturing a share of restructuring's economic efficiencies, while delivering the environmentally sustainable energy that Americans want.

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