Power switch
Missouri utilities want to change state law to encourage energy efficiency programs. They’re willing to help their customers pay for installing energy-saving equipment, insulation or even new energy-saving air-conditioning systems.
Saving power is a good thing — for the nation, for consumers and especially for electric companies. It means they don’t have to build expensive new power plants to meet increasing demand. The economic benefits for utilities are so great, in fact, that legislators should be asking why Senate Bill 1277 and House Bill 2298 are needed to encourage them.
The answer is that they are not. Not the way they’re currently written, anyway, and probably not at all. Please click here to read the full editorial that ran in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sunday, March 16, 2008.
