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Archive for November, 2010

Back when I was sending out mailers to various members of the Chamber, I encountered a person that was on the local electric company board of directors. He sent me a friendly email about how they were in favor of clean coal and sort of suggested that he had done enough study on solar to “know it won’t work”. That suggested to me that within the foundation of the local electric company there exists opposition to people going solar. I hope this just isn’t true but I am experiencing difficulty with my very first encounter to help a local hotel client get started in the energy evaluation process. It looks like the local electric company is dragging it’s feet. A hotel has lots of variables and I want to get the best over all picture of how their energy is being used.

So with permission from the client I went over to the local electric company and inquired about billing and formulas for determining peak charges and so forth. In the process I learn that they would put a monitor on the clients transformer and help see how much power is being used at different times of the day.  In addition to the monitor I learned that they would do a total energy audit through TVA and it could result in KWH credits being given to the client under certain conditions. So I passed this “good news” onto my client and he proceeded to make phone calls to his account representative in order to get the ball rolling on these services.

Well, that was over a week ago and my client has made repeated calls and left messages without any acknowledgment from the local electric company whatsoever. Now yesterday 11/8/2010, my client called me frustrated about the situation. He already feels like he is getting shafted by the electric company and is being over charged for power.

Do I get involved between my client and the electric company? Should I cry foul play and see if  the Tennessee Valley Authority knows about local utilities dragging their feet?

What do you think.

We, the solar energy company I represent, is putting in a call to a higher up personnel to get things moving. Sometimes you just gotta know who to call.

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