FAQ

Your Green Pow­er charge will be list­ed on your month­ly elec­tric bill as an addi­tion­al line item.

Rates are set by York Elec­tric’s Board of Direc­tors and are sub­ject to change.

York Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive pur­chas­es pow­er for our mem­ber-own­ers from San­tee Coop­er. The Pow­er Con­tent Label shows the resource mix pro­ject­ed for this year from San­tee Coop­er.

There is no ter­mi­na­tion fee.

None.

Green Pow­er is elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­at­ed by renew­able resources like the sun and methane gas that is found in land­fills. These resources are replen­ished nat­u­ral­ly. Green Pow­er is gen­er­at­ed by San­tee Coop­er and dis­trib­uted by elec­tric coop­er­a­tives across the state.

Green Pow­er pro­vides you a direct oppor­tu­ni­ty to help our envi­ron­ment by sup­port­ing elec­tric­i­ty gen­er­at­ed from renew­able pow­er sources. By vol­un­tar­i­ly par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Green Pow­er pro­gram, you and York Elec­tric are prov­ing your com­mit­ment to com­mu­ni­ty by help­ing improve the envi­ron­ment.

Each 100 kilo­­watt-hour block will add a mere $3 to your month­ly elec­tric bill. One block (100 kWh) is approx­i­mate­ly 10 per­cent of a typ­i­cal house­hold’s month­ly ener­gy use. There is no equip­ment to buy, and you won’t have to change your lifestyle one bit. You can sign up for as many blocks as you like, know­ing that you are doing your part in help­ing the envi­ron­ment and mak­ing renew­able resources and facil­i­ties a real­i­ty.

By trap­ping methane gas and turn­ing it into use­ful ener­gy, your elec­tric coop­er­a­tive is help­ing to rid the envi­ron­ment of a dan­ger­ous green­house gas. For­tu­nate­ly, as fuel, the gas is a renew­able ener­gy and has no waste. What’s more, for just 2 dimes a day Green Pow­er has the envi­ron­men­tal impact of not dri­ving a car for almost 3 months. (Source: EPA green­house gas equiv­a­len­cies cal­cu­la­tor using 200 kWh/month for the state of South Car­oli­na.)

Mem­ber Ser­vices Depart­ment: 803–684‑4248

Email

York Elec­tric Coop­er­a­tive, Inc.
P.O. Box 150, York, SC 29745

Drop by: Any local mem­ber ser­vices office

Usage rate: Your res­i­den­tial rate plus $3 for each 100kWh block of Green Pow­er.

Tax­es and Fees: You must also pay all applic­a­ble fed­er­al, state, and local tax­es as well as any applic­a­ble fees.

• $86.50 2004 month­ly elec­tric­i­ty cost
• $ 3.00 Green Pow­er pre­mi­um
• $89.50 Total

The Green Pow­er Pro­gram is vol­un­tary. You can can­cel or change your par­tic­i­pa­tion in Green Pow­er at any time. There is no con­tract length.

There are cur­rent­ly 6 land­fill methane gas facil­i­ties in South Car­oli­na at Hor­ry Sol­id Waste Author­i­ty, Lee Coun­ty Land­fill SC, LLC, Rich­land Coun­ty Land­fill, Ander­son Region­al Land­fill SC, LLC, George­town Coun­ty Land­fill, and Berke­ley Coun­ty Land­fill. The land­fills have a com­bined total installed capac­i­ty of 30 MW. Also, there are 3 Green Pow­er Solar demon­stra­tion projects in the state at Grand Strand Solar Sta­tion in Myr­tle Beach, SC, Coastal Car­oli­na Uni­ver­si­ty in Con­way, SC, and The Tech­ni­cal Col­lege of the Low­coun­try in Bluffton, SC. With 28 school-based, solar pow­er sites through­out the state, we’re doing more to than spear­head­ing the effort to con­vert sun­light into clean, pol­lu­­tion-free elec­tric­i­ty for all of our cus­tomers. We’re edu­cat­ing tomor­row’s lead­ers about the oppor­tu­ni­ties and lim­i­ta­tions of solar pow­er. We are also explor­ing appli­ca­tions for small­er wind tur­bines onshore, and in Novem­ber 2010, San­tee Coop­er made his­to­ry as the first util­i­ty to install a wind tur­bine and con­nect it to the grid. The 2.4 kW Skys­tream wind tur­bine is locat­ed ocean­front in North Myr­tle Beach.

South Carolina’s Green Pow­er plant col­lects methane gas that would nor­mal­ly be released into the atmos­phere – gas­es that pos­si­bly con­tribute to glob­al warm­ing – to be used as “green pow­er” fuel.

Renew­able resources pro­duce lit­tle or no air pol­lu­tion or waste. Bet­ter yet, some of them actu­al­ly reduce air pol­lu­tion and ben­e­fit the envi­ron­ment.

All rev­enue from the sale of Green Pow­er is rein­vest­ed in future devel­op­ment of renew­able ener­gy resources such as solar ener­gy and edu­ca­tion­al projects such as Solar Schools.

The renew­able ener­gy that you will be pur­chas­ing is not direct­ly rout­ed to your home, but by sub­scrib­ing you are help­ing to sup­port the pur­chase of addi­tion­al clean ener­gy and encour­ag­ing more invest­ment statewide in envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly ways to gen­er­ate pow­er. For every envi­ron­­men­­tal­­ly-friend­­ly kilo­watt hour pur­chased by coop­er­a­tive mem­bers, one less kilo­watt hour is being pur­chased from oth­er less envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly sources such as coal-based ener­gy.