Thursday, February 25, 2010

Lance McKee: All Providers Are Not Preceived (by the consumer) as Equal

Jay Morrison notes that, "cooperatives have used non-price-based demand response programs very successfully for over 30 years to improve service, enhance reliability and lower energy costs for their members."

It should be noted that members of coops and customers of publicly traded utilities have fundamentally different relationships with their suppliers; and trust -- essential to widespread smart grid adoption -- is higher among coop members.

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