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Fri, Mar 12, 2010

Business, New England

By William Morgan

The leaders of the Cheap Adipex Without Rx Rhode Island House and Senate wrote to the state Public Utilities Commission Wednesday to Cheap Adipex Without Rx support an offshore wind pricing agreement between Deepwater Wind and National Grid.

One day earlier, however, the Cheap Adipex Without Rx director of the Energy Council of Rhode Island sharply criticized the Cheap Adipex Without Rx deal and said it would harm large energy users.

Late last year, National Grid agreed to Cheap Adipex Without Rx pay 24.4 cents per kilowatt-hour in 2013 for power from a Cheap Adipex Without Rx proposed eight-turbine wind farm near Block Island.  That price could be Cheap Adipex Without Rx even higher after the undersea transmission cable from Block Island to Cheap Adipex Without Rx the mainland is factored into the deal.  The agreement is scheduled to increase 3.5 percent each year.  The Public Utilities Commission must approve the Cheap Adipex Without Rx arrangement and has been receiving testimony for several months.

National Grid signed on to Cheap Adipex Without Rx the power purchase agreement, in part, because of state legislation that Cheap Adipex Without Rx pushed utilities to buy power from large scale renewable energy producers.

In passing that legislation “the General Assembly understood that Cheap Adipex Without Rx renewable energy sources are today more expensive than fossil fuels,” wrote House Speaker Gordon Fox and Senate President Teresa Paiva-Weed.  “The General Assembly also recognized that Cheap Adipex Without Rx the development of renewable energy sources provides other benefits to our state and Cheap Adipex Without Rx nation.”

The letter cited carbon-free energy production, energy independence and Cheap Adipex Without Rx economic development as other benefits, and said that the Block Island project made progress toward those goals.

While the Cheap Adipex Without Rx politicians were lobbying for the agreement, Energy Council of Rhode Island Executive Director John Farley was campaigning for Cheap Adipex Without Rx the commission to reject the deal.

On Tuesday, Farley submitted a letter saying that the “price is Cheap Adipex Without Rx so high that it more than negates any other potential attractive features (such as job creation, added local supply and environmental protection).”

The Energy Council includes several large companies and Cheap Adipex Without Rx institutions in the state.  Farley said that Cheap Adipex Without Rx some of them could see their electric bills rise as much as $400,000 annually.  He projected that Cheap Adipex Without Rx employers would be forced to cut jobs to pay the increased electric bill, outweighing the Cheap Adipex Without Rx potential job creation.

“The fact is, we cannot understand why this Cheap Adipex Without Rx contract is even before the Commission today,” Farley wrote.

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